Youth clubs across Somerset have netted a share of more than £105,000 in grants from Somerset County Council’s Youth and Community Service.
The grants, for 34 youth clubs in total, will support projects across the county to help run popular sessions. They are matched by over £287,000 in locally raised funding and hundreds of hours in volunteers’ time – all for the benefit of Somerset’s young people.
Cabinet member for Children and Young People, Councillor Frances Nicholson, said: “Provision for our young people is incredibly important so I am really pleased we are able to provide these grants, which, combined with money raised by local communities, ensure the clubs are sustainable.
“Central of course to ensuring there is good support for young people is the dedicated hard work of the volunteers – without whom there would be no youth clubs.”
The clubs which will receive grants are:
| Mendip | |
| Limitless Youth Club, Wells | £3,500 |
| Evercreech Youth Club | £797 |
| Frome Youth Club | £7,000 |
| Shepton Mallet Youth Club | £3,500 |
| Street Youth Club | £3,500 |
| Glastonbury Youth Club – Windmill Hill | £3,500 |
| Coleford Youth Club | £3,500 |
| Stoke St Michael Youth Club | £2,330 |
| Sedgemoor | Amount Awarded |
| The Zone Youth Club, Burnham-on-Sea | £3,225 |
| Victoria Park Senior Youth Club, Bridgwater | £2,497 |
| Chilton Trinity Youth Club | £2,845 |
| Cannington Youth Club | £3,500 |
| North Petherton Youth Club | £3,500 |
| Alpha Point Bus, Highbridge | £3,492 |
| South Somerset | Amount Awarded |
| Hambridge & Westport Youth Café | £1,919 |
| Stoke sub Hamdon Youth Club | £3,500 |
| Charltons Senior Youth Club | £3,416 |
| Norton sub Hamdon Youth Club | £3,130 |
| Wyndham Park Youth Club, Yeovil | £3,258 |
| West Coker Youth Club | £955 |
| ArchiesXtra, Somerton | £2,706 |
| Tintinhull Youth Club | £2,855 |
| Youth Zone – Chard Young People’s Centre | £3,300 |
| Ilminster Youth Club | £3,054 |
| Martock Youth Club | £3,500 |
| Brympton Youth Club, Yeovil | £2,056 |
| Taunton Deane | Amount Awarded |
| Creech St Michael Youth Club | £3,000 |
| Halcon Youth Club, Taunton | £3,500 |
| Kingston St Mary Youth Club | £3,481 |
| Café Random, Wiveliscombe | £2,700 |
| Wellington Young People’s Centre | £3,500 |
| West Somerset | Amount Awarded |
| Minehead Youth Club | £3,500 |
| Stogursey Youth Club | £3,500 |
| Williton Youth Club | £3,500 |
