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Youth Challenge Competition: Up to the challenge

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The Actions Speak Louder competition aims to recognise the best project ideas devised by young people themselves. Andy Hillier looks at how this year's winners intend to spend their prize money.

The Chancellor announced that 2m was to be made available to recognise the projects that had made the best use of their Youth Opportunity and Youth Capital Funds and that could benefit most from further investment.

A year on and now rebranded as Actions Speak Louder ..., the first winners of the awards received cheques of up to 45,000 at an awards ceremony held in central London on 29 March.

The 15 winners have been whittled down from a list of 65 projects entered by different local authority areas. A further 15 highly commended projects will receive up to 13,500 each in prize money.

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