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Youth basketball expanded using crime cash Print E-mail
Thursday, 21 August 2008

Money seized from Scottish criminals will be used to expand a twilight basketball program that has provided a diversion for hundreds of youngsters in Glasgow.

The programme involves Basketball Scotland and Scottish Sports Futures taking £1.8m from the Scottish Government’s CashBack for Communities fund to extend twilight basketball to Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Inverness and Stirling.

Twilight basketball operates on Friday and Saturday evenings and aims to provide young people with a diversionary activity at a time identified by police as a high-risk period for street drinking and anti-social behaviour.

Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said:

“Twilight Basketball is already making a real difference to the lives of young people in many parts of Glasgow blighted by antisocial behaviour and gang activity. Although our cities are great places to live and work, there are areas within them that are blighted by antisocial behaviour and youth disorder.

“The devil finds work for idle hands and that is why this Government is committed to giving our young people positive things to do with their lives. We want to show them that there is more to life than drink, drugs and offending. Basketball as a street game can help stop kids from getting into trouble or up to mischief. Its a game they watch on tv and see in other media outlets. Now they are getting a chance to play it.”
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