Project Spear, based in Swindon, shut down last Friday (28 September) after failing to secure funding for work with young people who self-harm. For the last 10 years the project has worked one-to-one with young people in north Wiltshire and published a free national newsletter.
The project has received £86,000 a year during the last three years from the European Social Fund, but the criteria has since changed, meaning it is no longer eligible. Bill Turner, project director, said it was the only charity in the area to provide free work with young people that self-harm, but it had no choice but to close.
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