SIR – Kerr Kennedy (Letters, February 27) is right – the Government has a clear policy for promoting positive activities for young people.

In fact, the funding received by Bradford for the Youth Opportunity/Youth Capital Fund is greater than £675,000 per year.

According to Government figures, that sum was allocated for 2006-2008. Another £1.31 million followed for 2008/2009, with £1.04 million for 2009-2010, and the same for 2010-2011. So by March next year, Bradford will have received more than £4 million.

Exactly where all this money will have gone remains unclear. Three weeks ago, a Council officer wrote that “more than 50” organisations had received funding, without saying which and what for.

Last year, the Council claimed it could not say how many grants had gone to voluntary or school-based groups because it would take between 18 and 27 hours to locate and retrieve the information.

In 2008, it said it could not reveal how it had spent the funding without the permission of “each charity involved”. Two were Council buildings.

Meanwhile, many young people in need of positive things to do have received nothing. Thousands of them know nothing about the funds and have never been invited to make decisions on how to spend them.

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