Active Communities Network is working with a number of professional sports clubs and community organisations across the country to deliver youth engagement activities clubs, substance awareness workshops and training opportunities for young people, volunteers and staff, as part of the Choices programme.
Choices is a £4 million programme for 2011-12 funded by the Home Office. It is aimed at the voluntary and community sector to help them prevent and reduce substance misuse and related offending by vulnerable groups of young people aged 10-19 years.
The funding was made available to national voluntary and community organisations to support local organisations to deliver targeted prevention and early intervention programmes as well as transferring skills, expertise and knowledge. The application process was run over the summer and is now closed.
The programme was designed in partnership with a number of national voluntary and community organisations. There was tremendous interest in the programme and the Home Office received over 125 applications for funding from voluntary and community organisations.
All the applications were assessed and a cross sector decision making panel, comprising representatives from various Government departments and agencies met to agree which applications should be funded. Home Office Ministers have now agreed funding eleven organisations nationally.
The project will launch in December 2011.
For more information please contact us at or visit www.activechoices.net
