TEESSIDE and Wearside youngsters swapped regeneration ideas as part of an exchange.
About ten youngsters, aged from ten to 14, from Whinney Banks, in Middlesbrough, spent the day in Sunderland's East End and Hendon.
The trip was organised by Mickey Waters, from the Community Link Team, Sunderland's Back on the Map partnership and Paul Surtees, youth participation worker for Middlesbrough's New Deal for Communities partnership.
In a similar event last year, a group of Hendon youngsters visited Middlesbrough.
The event began with a visit to the Community Link Team Shop, in Hendon, followed by a swim and lunch at Hendon's Raich Carter Sports Centre.
The afternoon was spent at the Catholic Youth Centre, Hendon's young people's project and Sunderland FC's Stadium of Light.
A spokesman for the Back on the Map partnership said: "The visit was a way of thanking Whinney Banks New Deal for Communities for our trip to Middlesbrough last year.
"It created similar benefits in terms of encouraging ideas and providing networking opportunities.
"It also gave us the chance to promote some of the successful regeneration projects that are going on in and around the East End and Hendon.
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