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The Youth Cafe was launched to meet a well recognised and very real need to provide a youth facility within the heart of the village. This need had been vocalised by the young people of the village at the time of the Millennium, in a document "Somewhere2B" published with the support of the then Borough Council Detached Youth Work Service, a service sadly no longer in existence. The need for a non-uniformed youth facility to complement the excellent service provide by the uniformed youth organisations; Mountsorrel Scouts, Guides and Boys Brigade and that of the various junior sports clubs, was also recognised within the Village Plan of 2005. At that time the village had a well documented youth antisocial behaviour problem, high teenage pregnancy rate and low educational achievement. Despite much discussion by the Parish Council and at Borough and County Council levels nothing of any tangible nature was delivered... Our paid staff and volunteers are supported to develop safe and..

Primary location: Mountsorrel United Kingdom