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A lot more than just ‘a few cookery classes’
• I HOPE council leader Keith Moffitt will put his money where his mouth is (We must keep our young people safe, June 19).
One of the best ways to keep young people safe, of course, is to keep them occupied and happy and it is a shame that the council decided not to fund universal youth work at Gospel Oak’s Queen’s Crescent Community Centre which does just that.
Luckily much of what we do is recognised by charitable funders and we would like to thank the Jack Petchey Foundation, Children in Need and the John Lyons Trust for stepping in and giving us the money to keep our excellent youth work going.
This is not, as Matt Saunders, one of our local councillors, commented in your pages, “a few cookery classes”, but a sustained programme of sport, trips and after-school activities.
We work in partnership with the police and other organisations in the area and we have purposely employed and trained local workers who know our young people well and understand their needs. All this means that we are able to have maximum impact and this is what has so impressed outside funders.
I do hope that councillors will make the effort to come to visit our centre so that they too can fully appreciate what we do and also work in partnership with us so that we can carry on our work and keep improving it.
SALLY GIMSON
Vice-chairwoman Queen’s Crescent Community Association, NW5
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