Oxfordshire Youth has received a huge grant from a supermarket charity.

Co-op’s charity, the Co-op Foundation has donated a £65,800 to the youth charity.

The Headington based charity will use the funding to ensure pupils transitioning from primary to secondary school have the confidence to do so.

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The team expects to engage with more than 1,700 young people over two years; this will be made up of 120 young people from eight different secondary schools in the county, who will then feed their new-found confidence and knowledge into 1,600 primary school pupils from other local schools.

The Co-op Foundation awarded the grant as part of a £3m extension to its #iwill Fund, designed to empower young people to improve spaces, wellbeing and skills.

The fund is a £50 million joint investment from the National Lottery Community Fund to support young people to access high quality social action opportunities. 

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