In 1999 Oxford University conducted an independent evaluation of our Coaching for Communities programme in Northern Ireland. This report concluded:

 

"The West Belfast Youth at Risk pilot programme has demonstrated that it is possible for even the most alienated and disaffected young people to radically change the direction of their lives and begin to make a positive contribution to their community. The young people who participated in the programme were believed to be beyond help. Intervention by statutory agencies and the local community had made no impact on their anti-social behaviour prior to the Youth at Risk programme."