SHOTTON COMMUNITY OUTREACH YOUTH HUB AWARDED A LIFE-CHANGING YOUTH INVESTMENT FUND GRANT TO TRANSFORM ITS SERVICES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN SHOTTON COLLIERY
Shotton Parish Council, working in close partnership with Shotton Partnership 2000 Ltd. has been awarded a transformational Youth Investment Fund grant to build its youth service offer to young people across Shotton Colliery and neighbouring villages. It is very welcome news for young people supported by the Parish Council and Shotton Partnership who will benefit from the generous funding and means that Shotton Outreach Youth Hub will be able to support another 150 young people when the project is complete.
The Outreach Youth Hub will be built in Shotton Community Park, which is an ideal location to engage more young people and will offer services and activities which have been identified by the young people of Shotton.
Shotton Outreach Youth Hub is one of 140 youth centres in England to benefit from a Youth Investment Fund grant, announced by the funder, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the charity Social Investment Business, who is delivering the grant programme in partnership with Key Fund, National Youth Agency and Resonance. The Youth Investment Fund is part of the Government’s National Youth Guarantee to transform and level up opportunities for young people in England. The Youth Investment Fund, of over £300 million, aims to build, renovate, or extend youth services in the parts of the country where new spaces and new opportunities are most needed.