Goals: To help excluded young people deal with challenging situations by learning film stunts
Funding: 12,000 from Brentwood Borough Council, plus in-kind support from Brentwood Leisure Trust and the police
Getting young people to learn stunt moves such as pub brawls could be seen as unnecessarily encouraging violence. However, that is not the intention of a project run by Brentwood Borough Council in Essex, which has been teaching young people stunt skills for the past two years.
The project was first set up by the council's youth arts officer, Lucy Gill, in collaboration with the local antisocial behaviour co-ordinator, and Stunt Action, a group of stuntmen from Shepperton Studios.
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