Their world-class percussion section spent three weekends with us, developing percussion skills. We finished with a public performance. Another partner is Groundwork, a dedicated environmental organisation, who joined our Mission Impossible scheme to help groups of young people identify environmental projects for action and brought in local businesses as advisors. We also have a connection with the Sail Training Association and recruit young people to go on their sail training courses. I'm told that this is quite exceptional for an organisation like ours, because there have been massive cutbacks.
Success breeds success.
The membership base of our organisation has widened as well. We're traditionally an association of youth clubs, but now homeless projects, detached projects, schools in disadvantaged areas with a lot of non-school attenders, have all shown an interest in joining us. So have a special school and a sports club wanting to enlarge its sphere of activity. So that's about finding new partners. There are certain areas, mainly housing estates, where there's good will to help young people, but they may not have the leadership to develop their ideas, so initiatives tend to run into difficulties and peter out.