Weston Super Mare Youth Club

Weston-super-Mare Youth Club is sponsored by BBC Children in Need

Gemma@upsanddowns.net

Weston-super-Mare Youth Club

Our youth club for young people with Down Syndrome has been running for over two years and is located at the YMCA, where we have the use of some fantastic facilities.

• Ping Pong
• Pool
• Acoustic Instrument Corner
• Board Games
• Fully Equipped Gym(14+)

Throughout the year, we also have specialist activity visitors who come along to teach the children such things as street dance, kickboxing, archery, football, and multi-sports, enabling them to experience as wide a variety of activities as possible.

We have children from 10 to 25 who come along, our club is very relaxed and is great fun. It is the perfect environment for them to build friendships and develop good social skills and independence.

There are drinks and snacks available.

Several volunteers have all been DBS checked and come along each week.

It has been so rewarding over the last few years to watch the friendships grow, and it’s great to see the older kids who have been with us a while encouraging our younger group of kids to take part in activities.

We also organise trips to the theatre and look to extend this to other activities.