Flashback - Stacey Moss plays pool, watched by other club members, just after the club opened.Picture: STEVE BRADING (47456-b)
A lottery grant of more than £50,000 will allow a Colchester youth club to open more often.
Two new adult supervisors will be recruited after the Greenstead Youth Cafe won £52,100 from the Big Lottery Fund.
The group of about 25 committed members has, for just over a year, been holding hour-long meetings after school on Fridays at Greenstead community centre.
Extended sessions will now run several nights a week, and it is hoped the club will soon become a regular safe haunt for hundreds of teenagers from the estate.
The cash boost will also fund new equipment, including a computer and pool table, and youngsters will have a budget to organise monthly events.
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