Launch of YouthBank International

 Please do join us today for an early digitallunch with a group of young people drawn from five or six different countries... The YouTube page will go live at or just after 11am:

 

The event is organised for and on behalf of Youthbank, a great organisation centred and driven by in Belfast (at the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland) and now operating in a wide range of countries overseas..

Those of you familiar with #DigitalLunch will know the format. It's a short LIVE event to launch a new network promoting youth-led grant-making. A circle of young grant-makers from various countries will help us launch YB International on a live stream YouTube event.

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