This project has developed out of a converstaion held in the MCYP centre. The young people were discussing an impending youth club outing to the cinema when one of them stated that his mother had agreed to pay for this trip but that he had to start either saving his pocket money or get a job if he wanted to go on anymore outings. Discussions followed around the theme of money and the young people asked us how we kept the Youth Club open on the €2 a week they paid and the annual membership fees. We expalined about the funding and support that was accessed and that like in their homes we had budgets managemnet and a desire to do a lot of things we could not afford. The self sustaining ethos of the project was debated when the young man who need to get a job or start saving said that he needed to start operating like a business and indeed needed to start a business. The proposed project has developed from this with the younger people and the wider group seeking to address for themselves the current economic climate in which people are returing to a simpler more cost effective way of life, this project is focused on harnessing the interest that has been widely demonstrated in becoming producers of wealth rather than spenders of their parenst wealth. The focus of the MCYP youth in action programme is the the provision of skills and learning in traditional small business skills. The project will involve the development of an co-op style scheme that will enable the young people (YP) to learn new skills while providing an opporunity for the group to work with a range of other stakeholders. The project will have a number of elements that will include, learning about the traditional production opportunities, developing a idea and the product, developing skills in business and finally learning the uses to which these skills can be put with regard to the wider community and family life. The YP will be involved in all elements of this project.