Chapeltown Young Peoples Club

The Problem is the growing number of young people, mostly from disadvantaged backgrounds residing in the general area of Chapeltown who require a wider range of flexible quality accredited voluntary sector support mechanisms in order to self-develop, enter the mainstream and progress and maintain careers

The current Club and YesCyberCafé provision cannot continue to meet the needs of young people in its present situation for a number of reasons:

YesCyberCafé

1. The current premises has outgrown its physical capacity to produce sufficient varied and quality outcomes to meet real and potential needs

2. The current premises has outgrown its physical capacity to produce sufficient varied quality accredited outcomes to trade for its overhead and operating costs

3. The current premises overheads are too costly in relation to current capacity

4. The Club’s main financial partner Thomas Danby College  gave notice –ending May 2006- of its withdrawal of direct financial support –in the region of £60,000 pa in direct costs

5. The withdrawal of Thomas Danby’s support includes its role as management partner –estimated to cost an additional £30,000pa in hidden and subsidised costs, and which the Club has had to take on in partnership with the local Youth Service Department.

6. Both 5. & 6. above, have led to a serious strategic funding gap in the core cost of YesCyberCafé

The 10-2 Club

7. The Club office base is inconvenient for access by young people, members of the public and other workers, and has no disabled access or lift to its 2nd floor office suite

8. The Club’s YesCyberCafé, AfterSchool and PROJECT7 all require accessible shared office space in order to capacity build and develop coordination and administrative systems across the Clubs interests

9. Currently the Club cannot afford to hire permanent specialist office staff around M&E and finance and is therefore hindered in its ability to make effective bids, meet funding and reporting requirements and ultimately attract further commissioned work

10. The Club, taking on its new role as management partner of YesCyberCafé, has taken on the growing costs associated with staff, resources and development

The Club’s exit strategies is outlined in the options chart on the following page:

3. As for all FE institutions, a central government directive has severely reduced FE budgets in 2005 and consequentially impacted on many college and voluntary sector adult programmes in the communities.