A NEW Brampton youth club project has landed a huge funding boost in just its second week.

It was announced this week that the new youth club, based at the Green Door hall on Main Street, has received a £10,000 donation from the William Milburn charitable trust.

Announced by Brampton parish council chairman David Moorat at this week’s parish council meeting, he described the donation as an indication of the “lovely progress” being made in returning youth activities to the town.

“One of the William Milburn trustees has given a grant to the Green Door club of £10,000,” Mr Moorat announced as the parish council met on Tuesday.

“The prospects for the new project look good. I understand that the community centre has donated some of their equipment to the new youth club, which is very welcome.

“We’re making lovely progress on this project, which is great to see.”

Mr Moorat added that early indications suggested further funding would be needed to make the project sustainable for the longer term, but that plenty of avenues for securing grants were already being explored.

Brampton has been without a youth club since the town’s community centre, run by the Brampton and Beyond Community Trust ran out of funding for youth activities last year.

Brampton parish councillors Richard Wood and Owen Ramshay have been working in partnership with Brampton area youth worker Ruth Hutchinson and volunteer Yvonne Dempster to get the new youth club off the ground.

Richard said the first meeting last week had been a great success, with about 15 of the town’s youngsters coming along.

“It opened up for the first time last Wednesday,” said Richard, who has previous experience in youth work.

“It went really well. We didn’t want it to be too rigid, we wanted to keep the atmosphere relaxed and we very much want the young people to be in charge - to make sure it goes in a direction that they want.”

Owen said that social media was already proving to be an effective tool for spreading the news about the youth club among the town’s younger residents.

“A lot of those who came along last Wednesday were getting the word out with Snapchat, which was good to see,” he said.

The youth club, which is free to attend, has been supported by Cumbria Police, with Brampton’s PCSO Gemma Dawson attending the first meeting.

In a post on social media encouraging young people to get involved, the force said: “A lot of unseen work has been done to get the club to this stage. It needs young people to attend and the community to support the venture.”