A HOUSING association is backing a project aimed at helping Reading youngsters become volunteering champions.
Sovereign has teamed up with the National Lottery Community Fund to give a grant worth £8,000 to Spotlight, for its Youth Social Action Project.
Working with children aged 10 to 18 from schools in Andover, Basingstoke, Newbury, Reading and Southampton, they will develop their fundraising and campaigning abilities and work with care homes to combat isolation.
Sovereign’s Youth Panel, which is made up of people aged 18 to 25, helped determine where the funding should be awarded and is part of a £195,000 fund.
Daisy Mummery, Sovereign’s #iwill Fund Project Manager, said: “The impact the #iwill Fund is having on young people and communities is incredible, having already generated over £2.1 million in social value so far.
“I’m looking forward to seeing how our second round of projects contribute to growing this impact further.”
And Emily Morris, Sovereign Youth Panel member, said: “I felt empowered by having my own voice and opinion heard, which will go on to encourage youth to have their own say about other potential social youth action in Sovereign communities via #iwill funded projects.”
