The Youth Programme
Our youth programme runs for more than 190 days each year
The annual activity programme is made up of:
1: After school clubs at the Centre which run throughout the three school terms Monday to Thursday.
2: Three half term programmes in February, May and October which comprise activities at the Centre and multiple offsite excursions.
3: Three longer holiday programmes in January, April and July / August which also comprise activities at the Centre and multiple offsite excursions. The Summer Programme ends with an offsite residential for more than 30 young people.
4: Ad hoc outreach work, for example with Cavendish Primary School and the Dukes Meadows Trust.
With grant support from London Borough of Hounslow, we ensure every attendee enjoys a healthy hot meal at the Centre every day that they attend a holiday session.
We hope you enjoy finding out about them below.
You can meet our YOUTH TEAM HERE. You can also contact them at the bottom of this page.
You can read our SAFEGUARDING POLICY HERE.
At the start of 2019 our Charity took on full responsibility to design, fund, resource and deliver the youth programme from Hounslow Borough Council. We survived the constraints of Covid when the Centre had to close in 2020-21 and have since been building and expanding our youth work.
Our two term time after school clubs
Junior Club
Is a project for young people aged 8-11 years old that is open on Monday & Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00.
Junior Club aims to provide a safe and fun environment for young people to both socialise and develop through play and activities. Junior Club offers a wide range of activities and developmental sessions, these include; various sports and physical activities, arts and crafts, multimedia workshops, cooking and dance. Junior Club is a term time project but we also provide school holiday activities, which you can find out about below.
Entry costs £1 per session.
Senior Club
Is a project for young people aged 11-21 years old that is open on Mondays and Wednesdays from 18:30 to 21:00.
Senior Club offers young people a safe environment to come and make new friends as well increase their social skills. We help young people to build up their confidence, by encouraging them to challenge themselves as well as giving them the opportunities to experience new things and relax.
Senior Club offers a wide range of activities including: Pool, Football, Music, Cooking, Dance, Music Production, Arts and Crafts, Table-tennis, Badminton, Wii, Basketball, Tag Rugby, Dodgeball, ICT, and accredited activities.
Entry costs £1 per session.
We also run ‘Get Off The Fence’ which is a programme in partnership with Chiswick School, which runs on Tuesday and Wednesday from 3.30pm to 6.00pm
The first day that any young person arrives at the Centre they are required to fill out a membership form. For Junior Club members a parent or guardian has to fill in the form for the young person. For Senior Club the young people fill out their own form, once their form is filled in staff check the emergency contact details and call the parent/guardian to inform them that their child is at the Centre and answer any questions that the parent may have.
“I’ve enjoyed making new friends, and the staff help and support us. It is fun. Thank you for what you have done for us.”
DS. Age 9
Each year we run three Half Term Programmes and three longer Holiday Programmes. For the first time in summer 2024 the youth team ran two programmes simultaneously at the Centre and at the Dukes Meadows Trust.
Each year the holiday programme activities offered vary, based on feedback from the young people. A detailed brochure is posted by the youth team before each programme informing parents of the timetable and specific activities available.
A typical holiday programme comprises activities at the Centre (artwork, basket-ball, boxing training, cooking, dance, DJ-ing, drama, football, jewellery making, multi-sports, painting, stone-masonry, table-tennis and music production using our fully equipped sound studio) and multiple offsite excursions (which include archery, trips to the cinema and Coral Reef Waterworld, ten pin bowling and trampolining).
We ensure that every attendee enjoys a hot, nourishing and healthy meal every day that they attend.
We also provide various learning sessions, for example in first aid and personal hygiene and relationships.
The cost is £1 per session.
Our exciting October Half Term Programme
It runs from 28 October to 1 November.
You can see the programme of events HERE
See our Zest For Life activity here, as well.
Friday 1 November
Our residential summer camps
At the end of each of our flagship Summer Holiday Programmes we take a group of young people outside of London for a multi-day residential. This provides working parents and carers with a welcome break and a very memorable experience for the young people attending. We do not charge for this.
When we started our independent youth programme in 2019 we were able to take 12 young people away for three days. Since then the programme has grown and in 2024 we took 34 young people to the Kingswood Activity Centre on the Isle of Wight for four days. This Centre covers 100 acres of beautiful fields and woodlands in a cliff top location, overlooking Whitecliff Bay, with direct beach access. This is our most ambitious residential project yet and required 10 youth workers and four mini-buses.
If you have any queries about the Youth Programme please contact either:
Denny Anthony, Youth Leader, at denny.anthony@hogarthtrust.org.uk or on 07579 042 910
Naomi Alleyne, Senior Youth Worker, at naomi.alleyne@hogarthtrust.org.uk or on 07579 042 912
You can also find out more about our Youth Team HERE.