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The National Youth Agency: Comment - The funding lottery

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Fairly typical youth project. Located in a town centre serving a community of around a quarter of a million.

A few statutory units are scattered around the periphery but it is the only youth work agency in the central area. Most, I guess, would describe it as a success. Indisputably it offers services and opportunities for young people where little else is available. It has an annual budget of around £450,000 secured from 37 discrete sources. The sums range from £70,000 to £2,000 while time spans vary between three years to one. Some must be applied for annually, others bi- or tri-annually, some are one off. All must be chased, except the few that drop from the sky when a funder has spare cash towards the end of the financial year.

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