Talking to Helen Presland, you'd think that she ran a run-of-the-mill youth project in a community centre. She talks about how the young people she is working with have set up a smoothie stall, produced a healthy eating booklet and raised money for an old people's home.
But the young people Presland works with aren't your average teenagers. They are, in fact, female young offenders who have been sentenced to custody in New Hall Young Offender Institution (YOI) in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Presland is a senior project worker for the YMCA Offender Services Unit, which is running the XL Club project, an accredited youth-led programme devised by The Prince's Trust that includes YMCA personal development sessions.
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