Funding boost for youth club
PRESTBURY Youth Club are celebrating after being chosen as Prestbury Co-op’s local charitable cause.
The club, who have been raising funds for almost two years now for their new home at Bollin Grove, hope that the move will help them to raise a further £6,000 to £8,000 towards their target within six months.
The Co-op scheme that Prestbury Co-op, on Wilmslow Road, is part of, works by shoppers with Co-op membership cards buying Co-op own branded products, one per cent of the cost of which will then go to the Youth Club.
April Green, chair of the club, said: “We’re delighted to be chosen as the Prestbury Co-op Local Community Fund Cause.
“The children are all really excited about it.
“This will be a fantastic opportunity for the community to come together and fund the building of our new community and youth centre.”
The club, for nine to 16-year-olds, lost its old home, Ford House, in 2008 when the 19th century building was declared unfit on health and safety grounds and has been meeting temporarily at the village hall.
April said: “The youth club is not a uniformed organisation like the Guides or the Scouts. “It is more relaxed. “Between the ages of 13 and 16 is that no-man’s land where some young people feel they’re too cool for the Guides and Scouts but too young for the pub.
“The youth club gives them a safe place to socialise.”
Club members are now crossing their fingers for a final bit of funding from WREN, an organisation that funds community and environmental projects throughout the UK.
April said: “It would be epic if we get that as well, that would be all the money we need then.”