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Community Projects
Voltage Volunteers
The National Football Museum is pleased to be working in partnership with Voltage, a social enterprise scheme that asks children and young people to come up with innovative solutions to local problems.
Voltage is run by students from Lancaster University Volunteer Unit (Luvu) who come up with social enterprise ideas with young people and sell them to a Dragon's Den-style panel. A new round of brainstorming starts at the end of the month with more than 100 young people.
Ben Matthews, head of Luvu, says football's appeal across race, class and culture is what draws youngsters in. "When we were trying to arrange an event for young people from Burnley, community leaders told us you would never get a mix of people together. But we got different ethnic and cultural groups and even classes coming together."
Winning students from Burnley's Thomas Whitham Sixth Form College staged a fashion and food festival to raise several hundred pounds for recycling bins, which was matched by the college management company and celebrated the results at the National Football Museum in Preston in January (2009).
Further partnership projects are planned for 2009 and 2010.
Peter Evans, Museum Education Officer with LUVU volunteers