Specialist team
Some of that money goes towards the salaries of five full-time team members: two drama workers, a film-maker, a visual artist and a music worker.
Other skills are bought in as and when they are needed. The benefits of that kind of team working, says Chris Dale, creative department officer for music at Creative Connexions, are that it enables the schemes to grow organically with the interests of the young people.
"We have just started a project at St Mary's College in Hull, working with young people who are disengaged from mainstream education," he says.
"We are working towards a performance, but it looks like we might also do a music video as that is something the young people have expressed an interest in. If something crops up like that we can get another member of the team involved, or buy someone else in - we is building up a team of regular people."
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