Investing in the Future is designed to show how youth work can be a factor in regeneration, and has so far trained more than 100 volunteers in the North West.
UK Youth, the Coalfields Regeneration Trust and the Youth Federation run the two-year project, which has reached its first anniversary.
It has 210,000 funding from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust and Warrington Borough Council but Pete Wilson, voluntary youth service support manager at the Youth Federation, is hoping more funding can be found to extend the programme.
"We're willing to work alongside any other organisation that wants to put it into place," he said. "I would imagine UK Youth's perspective is to recreate it across the country in several different areas."
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