Aim: To create a safe, enjoyable and alternative place for young people to meet in Liverpool city centre
Funding: Received 5,500-6,000 for pilots from City Safe, Liverpool's crime and disorder reduction partnership. It is seeking other sources of funding
Merseyside Police was concerned that young people, particularly young goths, were hanging out in Liverpool city centre in large groups and making themselves vulnerable to committing and being on the receiving end of crime and antisocial behaviour. After the police approached Tate Liverpool for help, the museum's education curator Naomi Horlock established a consultation scheme, the Courts Project, so named because the young people hang out outside Liverpool's law courts. "There is no provision for young people in the city centre," she says. "It is ironic that they have subverted a space that represents authority."
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