Youth Zone

Our Youth Service aims to support young people in their transition from childhood to adulthood. It provides a wide and diverse range of facilities, activities and programmes which are designed to provide social and personal learning opportunities for young people aged 11-25 with a priority on engaging 13-19 year olds, based on their needs and interests.

The service complements and supports formal education by offering a curriculum framework which helps young people to explore the issues which affect them, to make responsible choices, to encourage social interaction, and to increase awareness of health and social issues such as drugs and alcohol education.

The service offers this curriculum through a variety of settings - open access youth clubs (see links below to individual clubs), street work, project work, school based work, residentials, group work and through a variety of methods - arts, drama, music, sport and outdoor activities. It also offers opportunities in participating in accredited programmes such as Duke of Edinburgh, Youth Achievement Awards, OCN courses in Music Technology etc. The service will take referrals from other agencies, including schools, and offers targeted programmes for young people who are or who are at risk of offending, not being in education, employment or training, who are pregnant or involved in drugs and alcohol misuse.

Within Reading’s Youth & Community Service there are 24 Youth Workers based in area teams plus 2 Connexions Personal Advisers, providing one to one support for young people aged 13-19 years not in education, employment or training and one specialist Personal Adviser supporting 13-19 year olds with issues relating to substance misuse.

Article		Description
	Amersham Road Youth Club	Amersham Road Youth Club
	Dee Park Youth Club	Dee Park youth Club
	Emmer Green Youth Club	Emmer Green Youth & Community Centre
	Fairview Youth Club	Fairview Youth Club
	Golden Eagle Club	Golden Eagle Club, Sun Club
	Ground Floor Youth Provision	Ground Floor Youth Provision
	Norcot Youth Club	Norcot Youth Club
	ReachOUT Youth Club	Youth Clubs in Reading
	Reading Youth Service Pledge to Young People	Our Pledge to You
	South Reading Youth Club	South Reading
	Southcote Youth Club	Information about Southcote Youth Club
	Sun Club	Sun Club, Sun Street
	Sun Street Youth Club	Sun Street Youth Club
	The Warren Canoe Club	Young peoples activity centre
	Tilehurst Youth Club	Tilehurst Youth Club

External Links

Reading Borough Council does not necessarily endorse or recommend any of the links or services below. Please note: when you follow these links you will leave this site.

Link	Description
Reading Youth	Website for Reading Young People By Reading Young People