Shepperton Youth Centre

30/01/2022

Good morning Shepperton! Unfortunately we must announce that under our leadership Shepperton Youth Club will not reopen. This is very sad for all of us and we know many of you will also feel sad by this announcement. We do not have enough volunteers and Chelsea our Lead Youth Worker moves to Sheffield in August. Chelsea and the management committee have taken the decision it would not be fair on anyone to open and then close again. Lots of conversations have taken place and we have had lots of support from our Cllr Maureen Attewell who is on our management committee.
This page will remain open for 4 weeks from today for anyone to capture memories such as photos. The message function will be open for 14 days for anyone who wishes to understand more.
We think you are all absolutely incredible young residents and wish you nothing but safety, happiness and the opportunities to make your dreams real! Thank you to everyone in our community who has believed in our young people and contributed to our success. Now it is time to handover for this youth club to achieve a new chapter. If anyone wants to discuss youth club potential pls reach out to Maureen.
Thank you also to our management committee members Paul, Richard, Richard, Maureen.
From your Youth Workers with the biggest love and wishes
Amy| Kat| Jo| Lee| Lucy| Chelsea| Georgia| Ella

14/08/2021

‼️WE NEED VOLUNTEERS. 💜💜

We are an amazing team who all give our hearts to supporting young people in Shepperton. We would love a few more community Volunteers to work Thursday Nights 6pm-9pm we have a real mix of older and younger team already and would love to expand this. We will offer training in the role and support and most of all FUN like Peter Pan we all get to stay young with water fights, Halloween and Christmas activities, trips and visits, nerf guns and importantly using all this as a gateway to help young people develop skills for life. Come join us. Message for more info!

22/07/2021

We’re BACK! Well almost… your youth workers are spending time in the club to get things set up for you lovely lot! Watch this space but here we are after our meeting tonight!

31/05/2021

Any young people working age with EHCP/SEND PLEASE see these opportunities to enter work in different areas supoorted by Surrey County Council. Please everyone share.

**JOB ALERT** We are offering a fantastic opportunity for 6 young people with EHCPs to join us on an apprenticeship!

We have the following roles available:
Business Administration in Community Protection Group
Data Analyst in Business Operations
Marketing Assistant in Children Families Learning and Culture
Digital Marketer in User Voice and Participation
Business Administration in Children Families Learning and Culture
Junior Content Producer in Early Help

Please click the link below if you would like to find out more- http://ow.ly/Iwb550EXG9P

02/02/2021

🚨🚨GET ON THIS! Please any young people wanting some fresh air and safe, legal activity we fully support and recommend this offer, contact us or them for more info. FREE TENNIS COACHING IN LOCKDOWN, all exceptionally well managed and supported by the Lawn Tennis Association.

Tennis Spelthorne are supporting Children's Mental Health Week.🎾

FREE Tennis Coaching for anyone Aged 13-18 diagnosed with a Mental Health Condition for the whole of February on Fridays 3:30-4:15pm.

We are also holding FREE Adult Tennis Coaching for anyone diagnosed with a Mental Health Condition on Wednesdays 12:30-1:30pm for February.

There will be a full Covid Safe play plan in place.

To book or receive more information please just send a message.

It would be appreciated if you can share where ever possible to raise awareness in these difficult times.

17/01/2021

Well sorry girls we couldn’t not share! What a fun night this was! Young people leading their own sessions, having their voices heard and understanding their role as young residents in their community. Having a ball in between Róisín Kate Charley Nardoni

17/01/2021

At Youth club we stand together! Shoulder to shoulder, as a community. Times are tense and confusing. Here’s a reminder from years gone by of who we are! “Shepperton Youth Centre, removing barriers, realising potential!” We are still here! Anyone needing support just MESSAGE US. Food bank support, one to one catch ups and emotional support, ideas to overcome boredom, advocacy etc! 💜✊

15/01/2021

To all our community members adults and young people, if your struggling speak to the team at Spelthorne Community Tennis Centre they’re amazing, skilled and are supporting anyone with mental health and disability to access COVID secure tennis. All approved and legal.

Mental Health and Disability Tennis is an important part of our program at Spelthorne Community Tennis Centre and something which we hold very close to our hearts ❤️

We are pleased to be able to offer anyone diagnosed with a Disability or Mental Health condition a chance to play tennis at our venue in Fordbridge Park, Ashford through out lockdown.

We have a qualified and highly trained team to help with your technique whilst creating a fun environment to be in 🎾

Our tennis venue has very strict Covid and Social Distancing measures in place.

If you can share to help raise awareness it would be appreciated.

Please Contact us through our website for more information:

https://tennisspelthorne.com/

10/01/2021

Today on a casual walk we came across some of our incredible young people at the skate park, we spoke with them and explained the rules of lockdown. They immediately suggested themselves that they return home. Our young people are not flouting rules or trying to breach lockdown conditions, like all of us they are unclear and confused by what the expectations are.
❗️We are proud to say we will be deploying our youth workers on the streets for detached youth work to support young people who need us and to help you all understand what’s happening. We will keep this page updated. 💜

09/01/2021

Excellent support from Bazleys in Shepperton! Thank you on behalf of the community. If anyone needs home school printing doing and does not have a printer themselves pls get in touch with them direct.
💜

31/12/2020

To all our amazing young people, families and our Shepperton community. The last time we saw you all was March this year, it’s fair to say it’s been a crazy and strange year. We have been pleased to hear regular updates of families finding time for each other, community members standing together and we are so proud of the resilience of our young people. As we enter 2021 things won’t immediately return to normal, we still have a way to go but we wish you all the safest and happiest times together with those who matter most to you all. We will open again and we will make a point of extra water fights, BBQs, karaoke, PlayStation (Chelsea has been practicing) we will be together as friends and neighbours! Until then we are still here for anyone who needs any extra support from us, just drop us a private message.

From all of us to all of you, the happiest of New Years, celebrate safely together!

28/10/2020

Jacks fish and chips are offering free kids meals for those in need of a little help during the school holidays.
Tomorrow and Friday until 4pm 😀

23/10/2020

Today we where informed of a post by Spelthorne Beat (Surrey Police) . This post unfortunately uses a picture of our youth centre and youth village sign to report anti social behaviour by young people and further gives license for young people and parents to be criticised in some comments we have read. Our management committee which includes our borough and county councillors are aware of this and the matter is being addressed.
We want to assure the many parents who are concerned about the impact of this post of two things:
1. We are here and we are safe, our young people are safe from harm and free from stereotype or discrimination when they attend Shepperton Youth Village.
2. All young people have been and will continue to be welcome at our youth club when we return from the COVID pandemic.
Surrey Police did not try to contact us about this incident but rather decided that this would be the best approach and reported this to the community using a picture of our youth club. We do not know why this decision was taken as it sadly undermines 9 years of hard work both from our youth centre volunteers and former police colleagues but we will always welcome a professional discussion to work in partnership on this issue.
Understandably as parents you are concerned and angry. It is upsetting that you have had to see this portrayal of a place that is so important to (our) your young people.
Our youth centre continues to stand proud as part of Shepperton Community, with many adult residents attending Centre 69 as it was back in the day.
We have proven that by being open we can reduce youth related anti social behaviour by 49%, something which was documented by BBC.
Unfortunately this statement also risks breaking down the trust we have spent years asking young people to have in the police. See below one of our old PCs playing one touch in the hall.
To our young people we continue the message that the police are a force to protect you and keep you safe from harm. Your local police officers/station is always a place to turn if you are ever feeling unsafe or in direct danger.
We will never make excuses for anti social behaviour, we will always challenge this when working with young people. It’s never acceptable.
This being said all services have a job to do, it does not serve our community to compromise the trust that has been established by all.

We will continue to be a voice for our young people in Shepperton, we will continue to celebrate you all and the amazing people you are; and will continue stand with our community. 💜

Until we reopen please stay safe!

03/07/2020

Hey everyone! How are we all doing? We hope everyone is well and we are very excited to see you all again. It’s seems our young people have been bossing lockdown!

Sadly it’s looking like we will not return anytime soon. We are In communication with Surrey County Council and discussing what return will look like, however please know this will not be before September. It’s unfortunate but as Surrey has many tenants in its buildings we need to make sure we are all kept as safe as possible!

Please make sure you are continuing to wash hands, keep a distance and wear face coverings when necessary.

Share with us how you want youth club to look until then and we can start to think about options.

Perhaps virtual youth club, or some safe distanced activities in the parks or some safe distanced small group chats and activities.

24/06/2020

A powerful advocate for children and young people. Dave came to Shepperton youth club last year and was very impressed with our approach, it was fantastic to have the support of such a strong leader in Children’s Services sector, who understood the importance of community driven change. This is awful news for his family and close colleagues and we extend our condolences to all! 💜

11/06/2020

Any parents or older members who may have become unemployed due to COVID, check out this offer from Spelthorne and Brooklands college.

https://www.brooklands.ac.uk/Spelthorne/

Brooklands College is proudly in partnership with Spelthorne Borough Council to offer an exciting range of adult courses to Spelthorne residents.

11/05/2020

Sorry to say we won’t be able to do virtual youth club today. We really hope we get to see you all very soon. Take care