Mary’s Youth Club has offered an open access youth provision for decades and now finds itself among a minority of providers that offers this type of youth work to young people.
At the same time, the nature of youth work practice has changed In recent years, as have the needs of young people. Combine this with the advances in youth work practice and the demands of the state, open-access youth provision is required also to provide elements of targeted and specialist interventions.
Our approach allows Mary’s Youth Club to continue its work of offering a universal provision alongside the much-needed support required by young people.
At Mary’s, this is a progressive programme of activities in which participants engage over a period of time, measured in years, not weeks. There are four areas that our programme is loosely framed around (hover over the images for more details):
We know that education and future employment are important. This is why all our activities and programmes have embedded support to help young people succeed at school and are at work.
In addition, we also provided a number of activities that are focused on building skills to engage with the world of work.
