Supporting young people in Eastleigh

Supporting young people in Eastleigh

Youth services and facilities in and around Eastleigh town will be improved thanks to funding of £50,000 from the Eastleigh Local Area Committee.

A new Youth Partnership will be set up to improve joint working across organisations providing services for young people. This will be managed by a part-time co-ordinator, who should be in post by October. One of their first roles will be to recruit a new Youth Council providing a voice for young people about local issues and overseeing a grant fund of £1,500 to support new schemes.

To offset the effect of cuts from other funders to the Energy Youth Centre, £13,000 has been set aside to keep the current level of sessions going.

The centre now hosts a weekly boxing session, run by the Eastleigh Boxing Club and made possible by a successful funding bid to Exercise Me, which has paid for new equipment.

The popular Velmore Youth Café will continue operating for another year, thanks to funding of £3,600. This provides a drop-in session every Thursday evening at the Velmore Centre and is jointly funded by Chandler’s Ford & Hiltingbury Parish Council.