Youth Work

The Hangleton & Knoll Project exists to work in partnerships with young residents to access and develop opportunities and resources and to facilitate positive change as identified by the residents of our communities.

We have a team of dedicated youth workers who support young people using a variety of different methodologies including:

• Open access youth clubs for young people (11–25).
• Street-based community youth work (detached/outreach).
• Promoting personal and social development.
• Enabling young people to have a voice, influence and place in their community.
• Helping build resilience and confidence.
• Developing life skills to learn, work, enjoy and achieve.
• Empowering young people to plan and establish their own groups and projects; with the longer-term aim of these groups becoming self-supporting.

By engaging with young people on their own territory we are able to make contact and build relationships with individuals who do not always access more mainstream youth provision.

What we do

Our Safe Out in Summer programme is now open for bookings (bookings are members-only - please see below for membership details), running from 1st August - 26th August 2022 and can be seen here. Please contact the Youth Team for more information.

This timetable shows our current schedule of regular projects and activities on offer for young people every day of the week, including some we deliver in partnership with other organisations across the City. The activities on offer currently include:

Mondays

• Youth bus session at Portslade Aldridge Community Academy from 3pm (age 11+)
• Table Tennis Club at St Richard's Community Centre from 4-5pm (age 11+)
• Young Men's Group at Knoll Pavilion in Knoll Park from 4:30-6pm (age 13+)
• Young Women's Group at St Richard's Community Centre from 5:30-7pm (age 13+)

Tuesdays

• After School Chill at Knoll Pavilion in Knoll Park 3-5pm (age 11-16)
• Youth Club (SEND) at St Richard's Community Centre 4:30-6:30pm (age 14+)

Wednesdays

• After School Chill at Knoll Pavilion in Knoll Park 3-5pm (age 11-16)
• Boxing at St Richard's Community Centre 6-7pm (age 11-16)
• Streetdance at Hangleton Community Centre 6-7pm (age 11-16)
• Boxing at Hangleton Community Centre 7-8pm (age 11+)

Thursdays

• After School Chill at Knoll Pavilion in Knoll Park 3-5pm (age 11-16)
• Look out for the Youth Team on detached around Hangleton and Knoll from 5:30pm

Fridays

• Table Tennis Club at Hangleton Community Centre 6:30-8pm (age 11-16)

Membership

We offer free Annual Membership for young people aged 11–19, and up to 25 for those with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND). This membership provides:

• Free access to all of our youth sessions, clubs and holiday programmes
• Subsidised / free trips
• Access to supported volunteering opportunities

You can find out more about what you can expect once you become a member here. Please click here to download and complete a Youth Annual Membership Application and Consent Form. Completed forms can be emailed to youth@hkproject.org.uk or brought to one of our sessions. If you are a parent or carer of a child or young person who is interested in joining our youth project this welcome letter will tell you more about what we do.

For more information about our sessions or to discuss membership, please contact our Youth Team via phone, email, Facebook or Instagram