Youth clubs in Britain have been vanishing
Their impact is hard to measure, but can be profound
Sometimes the small things make a big difference. Andy Hall, a youth worker from Shropshire, a rural county in England, describes a boy who had been struggling at school. No one had thought to check if his eyes had been tested until he visited a local youth club. A new pair of glasses meant he could see the board: “simple as that”. Mr Hall reckons they changed the boy’s life.
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