The Government's guidance notes for its Youth Opportunity Fund and Youth Capital Fund say local authorities should take particular care to encourage the involvement of young people who traditionally face barriers to participation, such as young refugees and young people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities. For "monoculture" cities such as Plymouth, where only about five per cent of residents are from minority ethnic communities, this presents a challenge. Fortunately, however, the city council's youth service already had a close ally in the Plymouth and District Race Equality Council.
The solution
The youth service and the race equality council had worked together on youth-led grant-giving two years earlier, when they set up a panel of young people to decide on grants from the Government's Pathfinder Young Community Champions Fund.
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