About the Gillingham Youth Collective partners
Gillingham Youth Club relaunched in May 2024. Youth Club sessions for year 6 run on Wednesdays (4.30-6.30) and for year 8s (7pm-9pm). Club sessions for year 7s run on Thursdays, 6.30-8.30pm, offering arts and crafts, cooking, sports, the opportunity to chill out with friends, play pool or air hockey and Sports Nights. There is also a sports night held at Riversmeet on Tuesdays – see their NEW Facebook page for more information.
Gillingham Youth Club is jointly led by Shelley Finch (Wednesday) and Jade Doughty (Thursday) with support from a small team of trainee youth workers and a management committee (Chair: Barry Von Clemens).
More information can be found on the Club’s NEW Facebook page
Address: Gillingham Youth & Community Centre, Cemetery Rd, Gillingham SP8 4AZ.
The Rendezvous is a Dorset charity with a 25-year long history of working with young people (13-25). We offer one-to-one mental health and wellbeing support, English and Maths qualifications, young parents support groups and home visits, special projects and outreach programmes. Based in Sherborne, we have been working in Gillingham since 2017 initially with an outreach programme (funded by Gillingham Town Council) and since 2019 the Gillingham Young Parents Support Project which runs on Thursdays.
The Rendezvous has a part-time staff of six core part-time staff and eight sessional workers. It has charitable status and a Board of Trustees (Chair Stephen Uden). More information can be found here
Address: Under Cheap Street Church, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3BJ
Charity no 1162722
Policies
The Rendezvous and Gillingham Youth Club both hold the policies and procedures needed to work safely with young people including policies for Safeguarding and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. All staff and volunteers are recruited following safer recruitment guidelines and go through background checks.
Safeguarding – safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable young people and adults is paramount and you can be confident that all project staff and volunteers have gone through the appropriate background checks. Safeguarding policies can be found below.
Gillingham Youth Club: key policies
- >> Safeguarding Policy – Gillingham Youth Club
- >> Equality, Diversion and Inclusion – Gillingham Youth Club
- >> Anti-bullying – Gillingham Youth Club
>> Complaints – Gillingham Youth Club - >> Internet e-safety and social media – Gillingham Youth Club
- >> Environment – Gillingham Youth Club
- >> Data Protection – Gillingham Youth Club
- >> Health & Safety – Gillingham Youth Club
- >> Privacy policy
The Rendezvous: key policies
- >> Safeguarding policy – The Rendezvous
- >> Equality, Diversion and Inclusion – The Rendezvous
- >> Anti-bullying – The Rendezvous
>> Social Media – The Rendezvous - >> Complaints and Grievances – The Rendezvous
- >> Health and Safety – The Rendezvous
- >> Environment – The Rendezvous
- >> GDPR – The Rendezvous
- >> Privacy policy
Who’s doing what
The Rendezvous
Project lead
Helen Da Silva Wood
Rendezvous Administration
Beckah Witt-Tower
Media Makers
Lou Donovan
Marianne King (film-maker)
Safeguarding (Rendezvous)
Jemma Turner
Gillingham Youth Club
Lead Youthworker (Job share)
Shelley , Jade Doughty
Safeguarding (Youth Club)
Shelley , Jade Doughty
Gillingham Youth Collective Steering Group
The Rendezvous
Gillingham Youth Club
Funding
This project is entirely funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.
