Welcome to Welwyn Garden City
Extended Schools' Consortium

Youth Section

	Current What's On	Date
	C2C Young Carers (4M) Information, advice, guidance and support and a range of activities that are fun and challenging.	Thursdays
	Breaks Manor Youth Centre (107KB) Learn new skills and have fun trying out challenging experiences. A full range of activties and courses.	on-going
	Breakout Project Come and have some fun at a new youth project for young people with moderate learning difficulties and/or disabilities..	on-going
	Meeting Point (55KB) Meeting Point is open on Mondays and Fridays after school and offers 13-19 year olds a place to meet and enjoy activities such as games, quizzes, trips and art projects like graffiti art.	on-going
	CineClub Cineclub is a young filmmakers network which trains professional filmmakers and teachers to set up and run filmmaking workshops for young people. Click here for more info.	on-going
	Youth Connexions Guide for Parents & Carers (373KB) Youth Connexions Guide for Parents & Carers of Young People with Learning Difficulties and/or a Disability (2MB)

Welwyn & Hatfield Youth Projects

Monks Walk Youth Project
Monks Walk School
Knightsfield,
Welwyn Garden City
AL8 7NL

Tuesday (term time only) : 7pm – 10pm for 13 – 19 year olds
Wednesday (term time only) : 6pm – 8 pm for 11 – 12 year olds and Senior Member Peer Education Group
Fridays : 3pm - 6pm for 13 – 19 year olds Meeting Point - a place to meet and enjoy activities and projects

This youth project is open to all young people aged between 11 and 19 years and not just for those who attend Monks Walk School.  Young people can take part in a range of activities from sports, art and craft to drama, and discuss issues that are important to them such as health, drugs education, bullying, peer pressure etc.  The activities can lead to recognition and accreditation. 

The project is also open on a Wednesday night for young people aged 11 and 12.  Senior members have been trained to run the project, which is overseen by youth workers.

Street Projects

King George V Pavilion, Welwyn Garden City
Monday : 6.30pm – 8.30pm for 13 – 19 year olds
From a successful bid to the Youth Opportunity Fund the young people have hired the pavilion in the park and have planned a programme including sexual health, a drugs awareness course, trips out and a residential

Welwyn Village
Wednesday : 5.45pm – 8.15pm for 13 – 19 year olds
Young people can come along to meet with friends on the Body Stop bus, which is parked in the recreation ground. The programme on the bus includes discussions on health, decision-making and smoking. There are also plans to have a police input on personal safety and knife crime.   Computers and hot drinks are also available on the bus.  The young people are in the process of applying for funding to hire a building for next winter, to provide a warm and safe environment. 

Welham Green/Hatfield Outreach
Wednesday evenings
Youth workers use the Breaks Manor minibus to visit the area by Dellsome Lane Shops in Welham Green and the British Aerospace area of Hatfield to meet with young people and encourage them to engage in positive activities in the area.

Care 2 Connect, Young Carers Group
Monks Walk Youth Project
Monks Walk School
Knightsfield
Welwyn Garden City
AL8 7NL

Thursday : 7 pm – 9 pm
This project offers young people aged 13-19 with caring responsibilities a place to go for peer support and planned activities around topics they are interested in.  If getting there is a problem, transport can be provided.  .

Bodyzone/Meeting Point  
Sir Frederic Osborn School (H Block)
Herns Lane
Welwyn Garden City
AL7 2AF

Monday : 3.00 to 6.00 pm for 13 – 19 year olds.
Meeting Point - a place to meet and enjoy activities and projects
Wednesday : 3.00 to 5.00pm for 13-19 year olds.
Bodyzone - Healthy living project and Drop in for C Card  (Condom distribution scheme) registration, information and advice.

Breaks Manor Youth Centre
Link Drive
Hatfield
AL10 8TP

Monday : 7 to 9.pm for 11 - 13 year olds.
Tuesday : 3 – 6 pm Meeting Point, for 13 – 16 year olds
Tuesday : 7 to 10 pm, for 13 – 19 year olds                                                                             
Wednesday : 6 – 8 pm Junior Youth Club, (run by Breaks Manor), for 8 – 11 year olds                                     
Thursday : 3 – 6 pm Meeting Point, for 13 - 16 year ol                    
Thursday : 7 to 10 pm for 13 - 19 year olds

Young people can come to Breaks to participate in planned activities, hangout with their peers and make new friends. The project is staffed by friendly, approachable, trained youth workers who put young people's interest at the centre of their work. Young people’s successes are recorded and celebrated.

There is a 'chill out' lounge for young people to relax, a computer suite with internet access, a music and recording studio, art and craft room and, on some evenings, a motor bike project within the Centre. In addition to these facilities, young people can take part in a variety of activities such as basic cooking, drama, DJ mixing etc and develop life and social skills.

Young people are also given the opportunity to voice their opinions and get information on issues that are important to them such as alcohol, drugs, health, education, bullying and peer pressure.

Meeting Point sessions are also held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3 – 6 pm, for young people 13 – 16 years, where they can come along after school to use computers, or take part in music, art and dance workshops. 

Young Mums’ Group
Birchwood Children’s Centre
Birchway
Crawford Road
Hatfield AL10 0PD

Monday : 1.15pm – 3.30 pm
This group is for young mums and mums-to-be under 20.  Crèche facilities are provided.  The programme is put together by the young people attending the group and this has included first aid, beauty tasters, sexual health and benefits advice. 

Hatfield One Stop Shop
1 – 3 Market Place
Hatfield AL10 0LJ

Monday and Thursday from 12.00 am - 6.00 pm. Tuesday and Wednesday 10.30am – 4.430pm
Friday 1.00pm to 4.00pm

Services on offer include:

• Advice, guidance and information on careers, training, jobs and courses  
• Sexual health services, including pregnancy and Chlamydia testing and a 'C-Card' condom distribution scheme.
• Connexions Personal Advisers available daily from 1.30pm to 4.30pm
• Outreach to projects and schools