Kevin McCaffrey knows how little was going on when he started with Lamb as a part-time youth worker. In some ways the club hadn't changed since he was a member in previous years. McCaffrey says it wasn't much more than a meeting place with a coffee bar and jukebox.
The club is still a meeting place, but it now offers a programme including trampolining, five-a-side football, canoeing and sexual and mental health awareness. It also has active links with other agencies. "It has grown beyond any imagining," says McCaffrey.
Making the change
"Margaret is a very dynamic lady," says a member of her team, Sue Telser, who worked part time on a democracy and participation brief with the developing youth centre. But it wasn't just personal dynamism that brought life to Devizes.
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