Conversations with young people at the Bay Youth Project were the impetus behind three youth-led projects at Sandown Station – they said they found it unwelcoming and unfriendly and subject to antisocial behaviour.

With match-funding support from South Western Railway CCIF and Isle of Wight Community Rail Partnership, the three projects were led by three separate groups of young people, but they all aimed to make the area in and around Sandown Station feel safer and more welcoming, and to increase community cohesion.

These projects were part of our Young Cultural Changemakers programme on the Isle of Wight, where young people are given the opportunity to make change in their local communities through creative projects.