The Croydon Youth Development Trust, was set
up in 1988 as the joint initiative of three youth work agencies
in New Addington working with the Croydon Youth Service which
offered professional support and advice. They saw the need to
find new ways ways of working with young people, particularly
those most educationally or socially disadvantaged. These
were the young people with whom the Youth Service had lost touch
becausethey had rejected, or been rejected by, the traditional
building-based recreational activity which the service then
offered.
The Trust was thus established,
as a Borough wide initiative, to promote innovative work with
young people and undertake research on adolescence. This
was to be achieved through projects run directly by the Trust
and through partnerships with other local voluntary initiatives,
for example, by allowing them to operate under the umbrella
of the Trust's legal, administrative and financial infrastructure
or by assisting them in raising funds.
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