The Mansfield Building Society’s Charitable Trust has made its first donation of £10,000.

The money has gone to Mansfield-based The Inspire and Achieve Foundation to allow it to run a Prince’s Trust Team programme for unemployed 16 to 25-year-olds in Nottinghamshire.

Inspire and Achieve helps troubled, neglected and disadvantaged young people, aged from 16 to 25, to find support to overcome or manage problems and take positive steps towards finding work.

The charity works with around 250 people a year, with an average 65% moving into employment, education or training as a result.

The Prince’s Trust programme is a 12-week course, allowing young people to get involved in team-building activities, a week-long residential trip, community project and two weeks of work experience.

They also get advice on how to write a CV, learn employability skills and gain a nationally-recognised qualification.

Pippa Carter, director at Inspire and Achieve, said: “Too many disadvantaged young people feel they don’t have any ability or talent and, as a result, avoid education or employment.

“It can be difficult to convince people they have what it takes to lead a fulfilling and successful life, and that is where the team programme comes in.”

The first team programme run by Inspire and Achieve will start in April.

Richard Crisp, commercial development executive at Mansfield Building Society, said: “The society will also help where it can through voluntary staff engagement.”

The society’s charitable trust is exclusive to registered charities in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire or South Yorkshire.

In 2016 it gifted £75,000 to the trust with the intention that further contributions would be made in future years.