Funding: Receives a 34,000 grant from the Department for Education and Skills, while the Ministry of Defence supplies the facilities and equipment for free. Local authorities contribute to schemes run in their area
Goals: To help underprivileged and alienated young people become responsible citizens
Tell most young people that they have to go on a run at the crack of dawn and you would probably be met with a short reply. But for participants on the Army Cadet Force Association's Outreach programme, early starts are just part of the course.
Set up eight years ago, the project runs a yearlong programme for 12- to 14-year-olds identified as socially excluded or likely to become involved in crime. Young people take part in a range of outdoor activities from abseiling to canoeing teambuilding exercises, while learning discipline and studying for qualifications in first aid.
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