The London Borough of Southwark's annual allocation comes to £221,756 for the youth opportunity fund and £191,801 for the youth capital fund.
In 2007-08, the two funds attracted a total of 340 bids, 211 of which were approved.
Meetings of the young people's panel are held every two or three weeks to look at new applications and set dates for applicants to come along for interviews. Four funding rounds are held each year.
Who is on the panel? Forty-nine young people were involved during the year 2007-08. All of them came from disadvantaged or hard-to-reach groups and about 60 per cent were black or of mixed heritage.
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