Resources: Project notes - Low-impact youth shelter

Goals: To give young people somewhere to hang out

Funding: 3,500 from Northamptonshire Youth Service

In 2004, Nassington Parish Council held a series of meetings with local agencies including Connexions, Northamptonshire Young Farmers' Club, and Millennium Volunteers, as well as residents and local young people, to decide how to solve the problem of young people hanging around a local bus shelter.

They agreed that young people needed their own "hang-out" space and the idea of building an eco-friendly shelter on the village playing field was born.

During the summer of 2005, some of the young people made a video as part of a grant application. Although they were highly commended by the Camelot Foundation's 4front Awards, the bid was unsuccessful. But their efforts did not go unnoticed and eight of the team received bronze Youth Achievement Awards. Northamptonshire Youth Service was so impressed with their efforts that it agreed to give them 3,500 to fund the project.