Goals: By funding their trips and entry to theatres, the scheme ensures that performing arts are more accessible to young people, which in turn will stimulate a continuing interest.
Funding: Using money from the National Lottery, the Millennium Commission awarded its largest ever grant of 1,025,000 to the NACYP for the scheme.
Many young people perceive the theatre as the pointless preserve of the moneyed classes. But for 10 young people from the Artillery Group Youth Centre in north Belfast, watching a play that reflected many of the everyday stresses of their own lives proved to be a valuable experience.
The group went to see a London production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore, which deals with the absurdity of violence. The play's theme was of particular relevance to the group as the effects of violence is one of the issues the Artillery Group's 500 young members discuss and work against.
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