The Prince's Trust's Pennine Lancashire Centre has been officially opened by Sir Trevor McDonald.
The Centre, based at Sandygate Mill in Burnley, will provide a hub in the area for young people to help them overcome barriers to employment and gain the confidence and skills they need to find work.
"There are so many varying perceptions about what people should do and how they should approach things, and what I find most annoying is people saying it is all terribly easy and that things happen completely by luck. It doesn't. It happens in the owrk in centres like these, in the virtue of effort and constant hard work."
One of the programmes will be the Trust's Enterprise Programme, aimed at 18-30 year olds and offering training in business start-up, one-to-one support on business plans, grant and loan application support and business mentoring. The programme has so far supported 61 businesses across East Lancashire.
"This is the first time we have been able to deliver all of our programmes to the area in such a fantastic facility for our young people."
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