The Isles of Scilly Secondary School is the one-hundred-and-second school to have been given a grant by Barclay’s New Futures this year.

Barclay’s New Futures is the UK?s largest education sponsership programme.

The grant money will be used to train students who have gone to the mainland from Scilly to receive further education, “so that they can mentor the current Year 11 students through their transition” says Barclay’s.

Konnie Huq, a Blue Peter presenter, and on the New Futures judging panel said: “These awards enable young people to make a positive different and have a lot of fun helping others.”

This funding comes at a prime time for funding and reorgansation: the British government have recently set up ‘Connexions’, which is a service loosly based on the old careers service to help ?young people? in their teenage to young adult years.