Rising Green is not a place that is stumbled upon unwittingly. It is slightly off the beaten track on a pedestrianised side-road off Wood Green High Road, a dense, multisensory thoroughfare of fast fashion retailers, the smoky haze of Turkish restaurants, busy cafés and gridlocked traffic. What was once a 1,000m2 retail space has now been refreshed as a centre for young people, made for and by them. At 4pm on any given day it is pumping with teenage spirit and ambition.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced a funding boost for upgrades to 44 youth centres across the country as part of a £70 million Youth Investment Fund in August, and as many as 300 projects are expected to be built or renovated over the next two years. After 13 years of Conservative government and its austerity policies under George Osborne’s chancellorship, 750 youth centres have been closed and more than 4,500 youth work jobs have been cut – a 69 per cent decline overall. In the same period, funding for schools fell by 9 per cent in real terms.