Ngage is headed by the council's leisure services division and includes representatives from Derbyshire Youth Service, the local youth offending team and voluntary groups. It has obtained 96,000 from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and commissioned five projects.
Richard Lightbown, senior sports development officer at Bolsover District Council, said the partnership would help to co-ordinate activities. "People at a county level and a district level need to communicate," he said. "We want to be able to go to the children's trust and draw down mainstream funding."
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