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£10,000 up for grabs for young people

Housing association Salix Homes has launched its Boost4Youth fund, offering grants of up to £500 a time to help fund youth projects or initiatives that will directly help young people living in Salford.

The funding is part of Salix Homes’ wider Springboard grant programme, which has so far awarded more than £90,000 to local projects that boost community spirit, improve the environment, reduce isolation and promote health and wellbeing.

Young people are invited to bid for a slice of the funding and applications will be considered by Salix Homes’ very own youth panel – Boost4Youth.

Boost4Youth is made up of a group of Salford teenagers who act as the voice of young people in Salix Homes’ neighbourhoods. The talented teens work with the housing association to provide

The Boost4Youth panel at Salix Homes

Read the full story in Life in Salford magazine issue 25, page 7.

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