'Without CATCH I'd be out in the streets': Meet the inspiring young volunteers giving back to their Harehills community

By Abbey Maclure
Published 1st May 2021, 06:00 BST
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From cleaning windows, litter picking and packing food parcels to mucking out a farm - the young volunteers at Leeds charity CATCH put in a hard graft.

Community Action to Create Hope, CATCH, is a youth project nestled in the centre of Harehills.

The charity puts young people at the heart of everything they do with a busy programme of volunteer activities, sports clubs and even an educational farm.

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As the Yorkshire Evening Post's Saving Lives After Lockdown campaign looks at preventing an upsurge in knife crime post-lockdown, the diversionary work of CATCH is more vital than ever.