Here's an idea

Click2connect is a website for young people that promotes local charities and advice services.

I teach art at a drug rehab centre in Winchester and wanted to set up a multimedia project that could promote local charities but that we could have fun with too – so it also includes animations, games and music.

I helped six young people who use the centre put together a proposal for group Millennium Commission funding and they were awarded £14,000.

Most of our funding goes on training, software – which is incredibly expensive – office space and insurance. We rent our office from Winchester YMCA, but we have just done a deal to produce their website in return for seven weeks' free rent, worth £470.

One of the young people was a tenant of Stonham Housing Association, and it has helped us by issuing press releases about the scheme.

We paid a number of training companies for seminars in computer programmes. Each course was a full-day session on a weekend; then tutors came in once a week for eight weeks.

The group learned IT and other useful skills: they set up a business, opened a bank account, learned to look after petty cash, dealt with meetings and improved their communication skills. It also made them more confident.

The site launched in September. But three of us continue building it by giving 15-20 hours a week at the moment. We don't get paid, but the youngsters make connections and one guy has been offered a placement with Blueburst, the company that hosts the website.

We are now trying to find more funding to keep us going after June. We want to expand the website to the whole of Hampshire – Hampshire county council is going to take over hosting the site in late 2004.