A youth project in Berkhamsted promoted its important work at the town’s popular Festival of Light last month.
The Swan Youth Project supports young people in Berkhamsted to build resilience, develop peer relationships, and cultivate mental and physical wellbeing. Their mantra is that they want to provide young people with ‘somewhere to go, something to do and someone to listen’.
The project, set up in 1995 by the late councillor Stanley Sharpe, is one of few remaining youth centres in the local area.
At the Berkhamsted Festival of Light on Sunday, November 26, the project ran a stall selling a range of products, including homemade crafts.
Parul Dix, manager at the project, said: “We have previously arranged meetings between Ashlyns School pupils and Dacorum Borough Council because we want young people to be a part of the conversation and not to feel disenfranchised.
“We want to give them the incentive to take an interest in their local community and think about how they can enhance it.”
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