AN EVOLVE-funded project has helped young people from North Liverpool create and perform powerful plays highlighting the dangers of county lines, gang involvement and knife crime.

Unistar Youth’s Between the Lines project culminated in a moving performance at The Liverpool Lighthouse in Anfield on Monday (July 6), following 10 months of workshops involving more than 80 young people aged 10 to16 from Everton, Vauxhall, Anfield, Tuebrook and Clubmoor.

The project was supported by £5,000 from EVOLVE Everton-Vauxhall’s participatory budgeting programme and more than £3,000 from Spirit of Shankly.

It gave participants the opportunity to explore the causes and consequences of criminal exploitation while promoting the importance of community, belonging and safe spaces.