Charity and Voluntary Sector

10DS: Around 6,000 young people will be mentored by Mosaic this year – a charity which has won a Big Society Award today from PM David Cameron for its achievements across 5 UK regions, bridging the gap between aspiration & achievement for young people.
 
The charity, founded by HRH The Prince of Wales in 2007, uses mentoring programmes to link young people growing up in some of the most deprived communities with inspirational role models to boost their confidence and long-term employability.  Mosaic’s mentors are volunteers and are primarily from Muslim backgrounds, communities that are traditionally under-represented in formal volunteering.
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WAG: Minister for Local Government & Government Business, Lesley Griffiths, recently visited one of a number of projects to benefit from almost £4.9m funding from the Welsh Government’s Youth Crime Prevention Fund.  

The money will support projects aimed at diverting young people away from crime & anti-social behaviour and resolve the issues which have led to them being arrested.
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BIG: Report findings launched last week, one year into the Big Lottery Fund’s ground-breaking Realising Ambition programme, show that ‘a lack of evidence-based programmes, challenges in recruiting sufficiently qualified or experienced staff and internal bureaucracy mean successful early intervention programmes aimed at helping vulnerable children are not being replicated successfully’.  

However whilst the replication of promising interventions is hard, the majority of projects supported by the Realising Ambition are succeeding in replicating to new areas.
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