Bexley Youth Service
Youth Centres
Youth Centres provide the main locations for managing and delivering youth
work. Click on a youth centre on the map below to jump to more information about
it, or scroll down to read about them all.
 Belvedere Youth Centre
The Belvedere area is now detached.
Cray Youth Centre
Mondays (Special Needs) - 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Thursdays (Project Night) - 7pm - 9pm
150 Rectory Lane,
Sidcup, Kent DA14 5BT. Telephone 020 8308 1821.
Cray Youth Centre serves the Cray Meadows Ward. It is situated close
to Foots Cray High Street and near Cleeve Park Primary School. The Centre has
recently accomodated the SNAP special needs group and focuses on attracting
and working with young people from the local Traveller community.
Crayford and Barnehurst Youth Centre
Crayford & Barnehurst is situated in the grounds of Mayplace
School, Woodside Road, Bexleyheath. Telephone 01322 527176, 020 8836 8235 or
07734 488325, or email janet.wilson@bexley.gov.uk.
Crayford & Barnehurst is a lively youth centre for 11-19 year olds, where
young people are very much involved in the programme and activities. A varied
and interesting programme ranges from fundraising awake-a-thons (overnight stops)
and boot sales to water fights - just for fun! There are also informal learning
workshops, sports, and facilities for snooker, pool, table tennis, air hockey,
play station, computing and internet access.
Erith Cyber Café
Bexley Youth Council are based at the Cyber Café, Erith, which is situated
in Erith Library, Walnut Tree Road, Erith, Kent DA8 1RS.
Contact: Sally Allen, 020 8836 8291
Howbury Youth Club
The Howbury Youth Club is situated behind the Howbury Community
Cente, Slade Green Road, Erith DA8 2HX.
Contact: Amanda Agates, 01322 356567
The aim of the club is to give young people a safe environment in which they
can take ownership. An objective of the club is to enable young people to fully
participate in how the club is run and to have a say in what activities are provided.
These have included a football league in partnership with Carlton Athletic Football
Club, residential weekends and day trips, IT projects, music projects, girls
nights, and arts projects.
Sidcup Youth Centre
The Sidcup Youth Centre is on Burnt Oak Lane, Sidcup, Kent
DA15 9BZ. Telephone 020 8300 3882, 020 8836 8235 or 07734 488323, or
email elaine.dowdy@bexley.gov.uk.
Sidcup is a multi-activity centre and offers a wide range of activities such
as arts & crafts, sports, pool, karaoke, girls nights, etc. There are also
learning opportunities, trampoline, Duke
of Edinburgh's Award, motorbike project and Youth
Achievement Awards. The centre has also covered fundraising events (Tsunami,
Comic Relief and Children in Need) and youth helped hand out water at the London
marathon.
Thamesmead Youth Centre
Mondays / Wednesdays 5.30pm-8.30pm is general club for 13-19
year olds. Partnership project with SNAP is project-based for 13-19 year olds.
The Thamesmead Youth Centre is now situated at the Southlake Centre, Seacourt
Road, London SE2 9XB.
Telephone 020 8320 6396, 020 8855 4046 or 07875 284 501, or email amrit.rahi-deogun@bexley.gov.uk.
Through the summer the centre runs specialist daytime projects that include
dance projects, football, sports, and health & well-being for girls. The centre
also has a music & media studio where they run workshops and projects such as
DJ tuition, MC'ing heats, music production, photography courses and film production.
All young people who come to Thamesmead Youth Centre will have the opportunity
to get involved and perform at local events across the Borough.
Welling Youth Centre
The Welling Youth Centre is situated on the corner of Lovel Avenue, Welling,
Kent DA16 3JQ. Telephone 020 8855 4046.
The Youth Service, based at the popular Welling Youth Centre,
offers a wide range of activities for young people aged 13-19 years old.
Activ-us (Monday/Friday 7pm-9.45pm) is an activity club providing
4 to 5 activities that young people attend for the first 2 hours of the
club, such as drama, dance, computers, cooking, trampolining,
music, pool, arts and crafts, trips, performing shows, volleyball, basketball,
graffiti project, construction, gardening, and issue-based group work eg. bullying,
health issues, drugs issues. Planet Earth (Wednesday 7pm-9.30pm)
recorded outcomes include building self esteem, jamming, issues discussions,
musical instrument playing, song writing, DJ master classes, music recording,
personal goal setting and trips out. |
