The Youth Club

There has been a Youth Club in the village for many years. However, after a break of eighteen months a new club was started in January 1999. It is held on Thursday evenings from 7.00 pm to 9.00 pm in Broadmayne Village Hall with an outside activity being arranged on one Thursday every month. The Club is open to everyone aged eleven to sixteen years living in Broadmayne or West Knighton.

The club is run by a voluntary youth leader, Kelvin Jury, with the help of a number of volunteers. The Management Committee can consist of up to eight members and at present we are actively seeking to recruit new committee members to swell our ranks. The club is affiliated to The Dorset Youth Association. The Club Constitution states that the purpose of the youth club is to offer to individual young people, in their leisure time, opportunities of various kinds, complementary to those of home and formal education; to discover and develop their personal resources of body, mind and spirit and thus better to equip them to live the life of mature, creative and responsible members of a free society. Since opening, the club has been very successful with weekly numbers averaging about 25, the numbers of boys and girls being about the same. Throughout the evening there is a chance to play pool, table tennis, badminton, listen to music or just chat to friends. In the summer there is plenty to do outside on the field – football, cricket, basketball and rounders. Everybody is always ready for the tuck shop to open. There have also been visitors to the club to teach archery and rock and roll dancing. In the future we hope to have more such evenings. On the nights not spent in the village hall, the activities have included a treasure hunt, a night walk, a barbecue and campfire.

Linda Clacher