The new Youth Hub in Leigh Sports Village has finally been finished. The facility will provide a skills and training centre and extra resources for professional and amateur sports clubs.
Wigan Council is leading a partnership that involves Wigan Youth Zone, Job Centre Plus and Leigh Sports Village that is looking to ensure young people aged 18-24 are able to access the training and employment opportunities that are available in the area. After ground broke on the project back in February this year, the hub now hosts state of the art gym equipment, computer facilities as well as an immersive technology and sensory room.
James Winterbottom, director of Digital, Leisure and Wellbeing at Wigan Council, told the Confident Council Scrutiny Committee that this would ‘focus on health, wellbeing and employment prospects for young people and to also serve the wider community in Leigh’.
