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Projects hang in the balance as Camelot funding is withdrawn

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National Lottery operator Camelot has aborted its funding of independent grant making trust the Camelot Foundation, leaving projects working with vulnerable children and young people facing closure.

The foundation, whose projects target children with mental health difficulties, those at risk of sexual health exploitation and those likely to be involved in gangs, has been forced to scrap its Transforming Lives programme, for vulnerable children and young people in rural communities.

And interviews for a potential manager for a £300,000 youth advocacy project have been cancelled as the future of the scheme hangs in the balance.

Camelot Foundation communications lead Avis Johns said it did not have enough money to fund all the programmes that have already been opened up, although they hoped to be able to meet the grant commitments already made.

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