Youth charity to support Myplace network
Laura McCardle
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Youth charity Ambition is to provide strategic support to the Myplace network as part of a Cabinet Office initiative.
The Cabinet Office has awarded the charity a grant of £27,000 to provide tailored support to up to 63 Myplace youth centres.
Barry Williams, head of membership development at Ambition, will lead on the work, which will run until March 2015.
He told CYP Now that individual youth centres will be able to choose whether or not they access the support, which will focus on strategic development, quality assurance, fundraising and youth service networks.
“Most of this offer is our core business and what we have offered for our members,” he said.
“We will go into the centres and work alongside them and facilitate a full strategic review if that’s what they want.
“We’ve also got resources [that they will be able to access] that we’ve delivered as part of our membership offer.”
Williams said that six Myplace centres have shown interest in working with the charity.
A spokeswoman for Ambition said that the charity is likely to continue to support Myplace centres after March 2015 through its existing membership structures.
The initiative will run alongside a second Cabinet Office scheme, also due to end in March 2015, designed to generate more support for Myplace centres.
Under the scheme, six Myplace centres will be matched with businesses that can provide tailored support to meet the needs of each centre.
The Cabinet Office, which has made a grant of £12,000 available to deliver the scheme, is yet to announce the name of the organisation chosen to deliver the initiative.
