SIR – The Bristol University report showing highly-segregated schools (T&A, January 21) should not come as a surprise.

Some of us having been trying for years to create more opportunities for young people to meet and mix through activities outside school hours.

Strangely, there has never yet been a penny of Council funding to support the project.

This young people’s charity helped students from secondary schools in three areas of Bradford to apply for one particular fund – the Youth Opportunity Fund.

Three years later, they have received nothing but apologies, inadequate reasons for rejection and a refusal to consider a re-application because it was in ‘the wrong format’ (the Council having failed to respond to requests for the right format).

By March next year, Bradford will have received more than £4 million for the fund from the Government. Is that not enough to create equal opportunities whereby young people from all communities can share leisure activities?

Chris Johnson, chairman, NEAT (North of England Activities and Training), Exmouth Place, Bradford