How do you…

Over the last year I have built a team of youth workers and we have reached out to young people but it hasn’t worked. So far.

We walk the streets and talk to them on their patch. We set up and ran an open youth club and at first they came and then numbers dwindled and the community centre closed the club.

Can you tell me how you reach out to young people? Had COVID effected your youth work or is it mobile phones? Do you have a thriving youth group, what do you do that is different?

Any ideas will be gratefully received

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