Our Vision
The aims of the Bookham Youth & Community Centre are
- To provide a well maintained, safe and welcoming community facility
- To host a wide range of activities and events for children and young people
- To provide a community facility complementary to, and not in conflict with, the centre’s core aims for young people
- To achieve and maintain self sustaining financial balance.
In more detail this includes:
a) Centre Facilities
- Welcoming
- Fit and provisioned for a range of purposes
- Attractive to let
- Well maintained, safe, secure and clean
- In use seven days a week.
b) Supporting Young People
- Surrey County Council to maintain two supervised evenings a week activity for 14 to 18s
- Project focused development e.g. music and performing art skills; after school café; 11-13s provision
- Focused and utilised resource for support and advice – e.g. 'Surrey Connexions'; health promotion and education; capacity building; life skills etc.
c) Community resource
- Host a wider range of community support and activities e.g. playgroup; children’s sports and leisure; adult sports and leisure; skill building e.g. IT, literacy projects
- Well known, highly regarded and utilised as a venue for private functions/social events.
d) Financial stability and sustainability
- Realistic projected budgeting
- Income from lettings and fund raising balance running / revenue costs
- Successful bids for pump priming and sustainable capital and revenue project funding.