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BBC News
17-07-2025
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Building purchase gives Callington youth group a 'secure future'
A Cornwall youth club is celebrating after it raised enough money to buy the building it calls Youth Project Group has bought the former Lloyds Bank building in Fore Street after securing grants from organisations, including the town and county group's chairman Paul Carey said the purchase gave the club "a secure future and an opportunity to do a lot more for the young people".The club has planned a celebration ceremony on Friday in which the key to The Vault, as the youth centre is known, will be presented to one of the young members. In April, Mr Carey said the group had managed to raise £130,000 in grants but had been short of £100,000 until it was awarded further grant funding in May, which enabled the purchase of the added the club regularly had 30 to 35 young people attend drop-in sessions three times a week and buying the building had been "a relief" as it ensured the club could continue.
BBC News
14-04-2025
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- BBC News
Cornwall youth club in limbo as building put up for sale
A youth club in Cornwall faces closure unless it can secure £100,000 by the end of April to buy the building it currently leases, bosses Callington Youth Project Group, which opened in May last year, holds drop in sessions on Wednesdays and Fridays at The Vault youth the former Lloyds Bank building the club uses has come up for sale and chairman Paul Carey fears they may be gazumped by another interested buyer. He said: "The truth is there is nowhere else... as good as The Vault youth centre - it's nice and big, there's room upstairs to expand to create some flats that we could rent out and provide a sustainable income." Mr Carey said they have another year on their lease but if someone else bought the property they would be given three months' notice before they were "out on our heels"."We've got the opportunity to buy it," he said."We need another £100,000 to complete the deal, if we can do that by the end of April we'll be home and dry - we can secure the building and keep it as a youth club forever. "We've been lucky to secure grants to cover half the money we need and we're hoping that another couple of grants applications that have been made will come through. "What would be really good though is to show some community support because it's important we can show funders we have the community behind us." The youth group is attended by about 45 to 55 young people, said 15, who visits the youth club, said: "I love it here, it's a great place to get away from everything going on at home because life has been hectic over the last year. "I've loved coming here, playing games, practising for my GCSEs, I've loved every second of it."To me it's very important to save it, because it distracts teenagers, gets them off the streets from doing stuff they shouldn't do, so I would love this space to stay open."Ruan, 14, another club member, said: "I think The Vault is a good place to go because it's good to get out of the house sometimes and talk to people."I would say it has made me a better person."Madison, 14, added: "I'd say The Vault is probably the best place to be when you are struggling because you can make new friends and there's lots of things to do when you get bored."
