A NEW travelling youth centre for teenagers in Burnley will be touring the streets from now on.
The centre is the latest idea to come from the ROBOT group - Relief or Boredom of Teenagers - and has been paid for through a grant from the Burnley Challenge Fund.
The group spent £25,000 to convert a Ford van into a caravanette, complete with awning, seating for 10, a cooker and toilets.
The van will be used to continue and expand a project established three years ago which involved a converted ambulance.
The original ROBOT group of five teenage girls were backed by the Lancashire Youth and Community Service and won cash from the Barclays Youth Award to make a youth centre in a converted ambulance.
The ambulance visits neighbourhoods on a weekly rota, staying a couple of hours in each place for youngsters to use as a mobile meeting place.
It currently visits Healey Wood and Trinity on Monday, Sedburgh Street and Thursby Road on Tuesday, Healey Wood and the town centre on Wednesday, Trinity and Stoneyholme on Thursday and has a return visit to Stoneyholme on Friday.
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