The organisation is using the funding in partnership with Battersea Arts Centre (London) and Contact Theatre (Manchester) to empower their youth steering team to grow and strengthen grow their social change projects and further address pertinent community needs and to facilitate a COVID-19 response community-based research project. The funding helps young people gain the self-confidence networks skills and creative mind-set to connect and lobby for social change in their communities and provides the support to cope with the impacts of the pandemic.