Healthy Youth Bank.

As a result of the Brookhouse and Little Harwood Consultation Project a core group of young people have been approached to become the Healthy Living Youth Bank. Youth Bank is a new and innovative UK-wide grant making initiative run by young people for young people. Local Youth Banks provide small grants to projects led by young people, of benefit to the community and that also benefit the young people taking part.

Youth Bank is unique in that it is young people themselves who make decisions about how local Youth Banks are managed and run and, through a Board of young people, also direct the UK-wide programme. But Youth Bank is more than just a way of giving out grants – it is about supporting and training young people to enable them, through grant making and related activity, to benefit other young people and the community, as well as themselves. Youth Bank builds on young people’s skills and experiences to enable them to reach their full potential and to play a full part in their own communities Using the correlated information from the consultation they have ascertained that young people from the Blackburn North East area

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Healthy Youth Bank.

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