Youth Club

Mary’s Youth Club welcomes young people aged between 10 – 19, offering a friendly, open youth club with opportunities to share, grow, learn and enjoy.

Current programme

For information on any of these programmes or just for a chat. Get in contact with Sally and Aston

on 07816 073 016 (call, txt or WhatsApp) or through the socials (Instagram and Twitter)

Usually, programmes would run Monday to Friday, with most activity taking place on-site and satellite sessions delivered with our partners. Young people can hang out in the centre with computers (including internet access), games consoles, table tennis and comfy sofas. We also have a sports hall with basketball, a gym, dance studio, kitchen and classroom. Members can organise their own activities or join in with whatever’s happening in our weekly programmes.

Mary’s is run by our youth members with support from qualified, experienced and enthusiastic youth workers, trainee youth workers and volunteers. It’s free to join and take part and registration can be done whenever the youth club is open. Explore the website to find out more about us, the programme and how you can support our work.

Tell me more!

Being better connected improves the prospects of disadvantaged young people, brings greater opportunities and sets up young people for lifelong fulfillment.

Mary’s Youth Club helps young people to be better connected and better equipped with the skills and confidence to form and engage with supportive networks of friends and family, health and social services, businesses and organisations.

Our members want to be better connected to and have a stake in the world around them. Our programme helps young people:

Increase their confidence in communicating in a range of different settings.
Increase their resourcefulness and initiative in the face of challenges.
To further develop good judgement, consider risks, and make reasoned decisions.
Have greater agency, influence, responsibility and leadership.

We have a balanced programme of activities and provide a safe, welcoming place for young people to make friends and try new things. Like learning how to cook great meals for less than a takeaway, maintaining a bike for cheap and easy transport or how to access health services and when they might have to.

I didn’t really have any confidence before I started coming to Mary’s - Youth member

Many young people feel they lack the confidence and skills they need for life beyond education, even for those who are doing well academically. We understand this and prepare young people like Sarah to be better connected with the world around them.

Better Connected

Youth Services have declined over the last decade with many centres closing and the loss of many committed workers and volunteers. Young people need your support to safeguard Mary’s Youth Club and ensure that the support and opportunity we provide remains available for those who need it.

We welcome donations to help continue our work and there are lots of ways to get involved.

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Latest

Pre-school June 2021 newsletter

It is important to us to keep you as parents up to date on what is happening within the preschool. We are nearly at the end of the term and want to make sure you have all got the dates for the end of term graduation celebrations for the children leaving us.
Summer Play Scheme

At Mary’s Play Scheme, your children will have an action-packed, enjoyable time which they will want to return to. Here, playschemes are for children between the ages of 6 and 12 years old. The core opening hrs are 9 AM – 5 PM. Parents can buy extend the time till 5.30 PM. We will have trips away to local parks during this playscheme. All children in the group would be expected to go on the trip which will be within walking distance. The groups will be no more than 15 children.
Moving up to youth club

This information is designed to help parents and young people make the transition from our holiday play scheme to our youth services.
Support Play Scheme

Help us continue supporting families with all-day childcare during the long school holidays at our below cost charge rates by donating to fund this service.

Film Festival
Keeping it Wild 2020

Keeping it Wild is a programme that brings the youth and conservation sectors together to provide exciting opportunities for young people to engage with and protect the capital’s wild spaces.
What's On

Find out what's on now at Mary's? We have a range of activities every day catering for children, young people, adults and the elderly from physical exercise, dance, social support, through educational, training, special interest groups to leisure activities and birthday parties.
What's Your Story?

Share your story about health and wellbeing on the Bemerton Estate
Autumn (Winter) Camp in Essex

Mary’s Youth Club members braved the elements to take part in a spooky camp.
CoderDojo @ Mary's Youth Club

Free weekly coding class for children aged 10-17 yrs. It runs on Mondays, term time.
Catalyst Funding

The Catalyst Programme awards up to £500 to people on low incomes to pay for opportunities that make a difference. Mary's awards grant to young people to help make the next steps on their journey.
APPG Youth Work

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Youth Affairs (APPG) has released the final report on the inquiry into youth services.
Better Connected

Mary's Vision For Youth Work
Keeping It Wild – Update

We’ve partnered with London Youth and London Wildlife Trust to embark on an inclusive social action project called City Leaders Keeping it Wild.

Youth Club

Young people today are facing daunting challenges relating to their safety, health, employment and lifelong prospects. Mary’s Youth Club gives young people the skills, confidence and networks to succeed.
Play scheme

The words ‘school holidays’ can fill many parents with dread – especially if they are working. But these are times that children should look forward to as a period when they can draw breath and take a break from the often very competitive academic life they face at school and ‘just’ play.
Coronavirus (Covid-19)

Mary's is now running most of its services with appropriate COVID SAFETY measures in place. Get the latest
Pre-school

Giving children aged between 2 and 4 years the best start.
Summer Play Scheme

At Mary’s Play Scheme, your children will have an action-packed, enjoyable time which they will want to return to. Here, playschemes are for children between the ages of 6 and 12 years old. The core opening hrs are 9 AM – 5 PM. Parents can buy extend the time till 5.30 PM. We will have trips away to local parks during this playscheme. All children in the group would be expected to go on the trip which will be within walking distance. The groups will be no more than 15 children.
Room and Space Hire

Wide range of meeting rooms and spaces to suit a variety of activities and occasions.
What's On

Find out what's on now at Mary's? We have a range of activities every day catering for children, young people, adults and the elderly from physical exercise, dance, social support, through educational, training, special interest groups to leisure activities and birthday parties.
What We Do
General Appeal for Mary's Youth Club

Help us fundraise to support local young people so they can succeed against the odds, by making a donation.
Gym

Mary’s Gym is by the community and for the community offering a well equipped workout space with shower and changing facilities at low cost with a monthly rolling contract or special group offers so that you can work to achieve your fitness goal.