The Salmon Youth Centre
Salmon Youth Centre has been reaching out to young people in inner city London for over a hundred years. We inspire young people to reach their potential and contribute positively to the community in which they live.
We welcome around 500 young people every week. Our doors are open to all young people, from all backgrounds, between six and 25 years old.
We promote positive change in young people and support their transition to adulthood in three key ways:
Improving young people’s Health & Wellbeing
Preparing young people for Education & Work
Involving young people in positive Community Engagement
What we offer
We provide generic and specialised youth work to young people across 35 weekly sessions, including activities such as adventure, arts, dance, drama, music and sports.
Our targeted provision also includes:
Apprenticeship Scheme: offering young people the opportunity to study and work over nine to twelve months.
Mentoring: one-to-one support for young people, including our disability befriending schemes.
Mixables & Mixters: youth work with disabled young people aged 12-25.
We work with a wide range of young people many of whom are disadvantaged such as:
Young people in care or leaving care.
Young ex-offenders leaving prison.
Young carers looking after a parent.
Young people facing abuse at home.
Young people at risk of homelessness or offending.
Disabled young people.
We build long-term relationships with young people through regular social interaction. We believe that every young person has potential and we work intensively to inspire young people to reach their potential and contribute positively to the community in which they live.
How you can help
Volunteers
We need regular volunteers to act as mentors. For more information please visit: https://salmonyouthcentre.org/young-people/mentoringatsalmon/
Venue Hire
If you can provide us with access to a meeting room for our away day once per year.
Please email Jamie on jamie.anglesea@salmonyouthcentre.org for additional information.
Awareness
Help us raise the aspirations of our service users by visiting workplaces and finding out about various industries.
Please email Jamie on jamie.anglesea@salmonyouthcentre.org for additional information.
Employment
Please email Jamie on jamie.anglesea@salmonyouthcentre.org if you have access to local jobs or work experience for our service users that complete our training programmes.
Fixtures and Repairs
We could use a helping hand for the repairs for our venue or other structural work. Please email Jamie on jamie.anglesea@salmonyouthcentre.org if you are able to offer such services or for additional information.
General Donations
We accept:
food
clothes
unwanted office items (IT equipment, furniture, etc)
books
Gift Donations
If you believe you can assist us with christmas gift gathering, please email jamie.anglesea@salmonyouthcentre.org