Youth and crime agencies, local authorities and sports personalities backed the Youth Charter for Sports, Culture and the Arts at a conference in London's Commonwealth Institute.
Five-times karate world champion Geoff Thompson set the charter up a decade ago, after the shooting of 14-year-old Benji Stanley in Manchester's Moss Side. The charter has delivered 40 projects to date by providing sports and arts projects for young people to aid personal and social development.
Thompson said: "The aim is to use sports and arts as popular engagement tools to inspire self-discipline, personal and collective social responsibility,"
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