Goals: To identify marginalised 12- to 19-year-olds and involve them in community regeneration
Funding: Receives 5,000 a year. Funding comes from Sheffield Futures, the Single Regeneration Budget, The Prince's Trust, Neighbourhood Support Fund and Neighbourhood Renewal Fund
Generation gaps do not come more pronounced than that between teenagers and pensioners, partly due to decades of bad press about the "youth of today".
But a drug-related murder on the Manor housing estate in Sheffield has been the turning point for the area's young people. Their work, as part of the Manor Young People's Health Project, last week won them a CSV Make A Difference Day award for Most Exceptional Youth Activity.
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