St Andrew's Club
London, UK
The Club is a registered charity, established 150 years ago, and provides a sense of belonging, fun and informal education to around 700 members each year, where they develop self-confidence, respect for others and build their abilities to contribute to society as good citizens. The Club is in action seven days a week. We have Senior Club programmes Monday – Thursday evenings and Junior Club on Monday and Wednesday evenings; we have Karate Club on Friday and we field football teams on Sundays. In addition, we run programmes during school holidays through the day and into the evenings. In 2016-17 the Club enjoyed 17,806 individual attendances over the year. It has no religious affiliations and is open to all, with members paying only a very modest subscription. The Club is a vital resource for the local community, providing value for money opportunities in a safe, attractive environment for young people to develop educationally, socially and personally through an exciting and remarkably wide range of sport, art, excursions and practical skills. Many of the members live locally in Westminster and come from homes on very tight budgets. We offer a youth development programme to those members keen to take on responsibility and challenges. Many members volunteer and then become youth workers themselves to give back to the Club. Prevention is certainly better than cure and topical issues which affect members’ lives are addressed through workshops, such as gangs and radicalisation, drug prevention, money management, healthy eating, body image and social media bullying.
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