Scroll down to watch a video of young people dancing at the opening ceremony of the Pridmore community centre and youth club.
Coventry's annual youth opportunity fund and youth capital fund allocation amounts to a combined £616,300, but young people also get to influence how the council spends other money on young people's services. The youth opportunity fund and youth capital fund are administered through a single panel of young people who receive support from Coventry Youth Service's Democracy Project.
How was it set up? April Donnelly, manager of the Democracy Project, says: "We took our ideas to our youth council and spent a day discussing every aspect of the funds. We came away having developed much of the processes, including plans that would involve young people in the evaluation."
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