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By Al-Ghazali Multicultural Centre
To reopen our youth club area in the basement floor of our building. It needs a damp course and re-plastering the walls, improving the electrics, new floor and toilets.
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The Al-Ghazali Youth club is one of the Al-Ghazali centre projects, it has been delivering recreational, motivational and educational support activities to local children and young people since 1992. The centre now owns its own building in the heart of the community in Liverpool 7 bordered by L8 and L15. Our youth club area is in the basement of our building. Our young people wanted to improve the condition of the youth club to make it bigger and in a better condition as the walls and floors had been hit by damp. They want it to accommodate the increasing number of users and have more activities to meet young peoples needs. There was a lot of disused space and the area needed work to improve the condition of the walls and flooring. Last year we were lucky enough to able to excavate unused space which doubled the size of the youth club area. We now need to complete the work by plastering the walls, improve the electrics and new flooring.
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Why it's a great idea:
Our youth club delivers a vital service to the community, ensuring that local young people have a safe place to play, build relationships and receive the support they need to flourish in life and feel confident, happy and part of a community. Our project will increase the delivery of youth provision in the area for all young people but especially for young people from ethnic minority communities and Roma and Czech community which are all within the vicinity of the centre. Our youth club is over subscribed, the refurbishment of our expanded youth club will mean we can welcome more young people and increase the variety of activities to suit young peoples wants and needs. Our youth club contributes to preventing antisocial behaviour and gang culture on our streets. It also gives young people facing isolation and loneliness an opportunity to take part in local activities and supports members dealing with mental health issues. Members have opportunities to volunteer and gain employment.
Steps to get it done:
Our youth club delivers a package of services to its young people, they don't just come and socialise but also receive support with school work, support with mental health issues especially as we are gradually coming out of lock-down and young people will have to contend with the impact of Covid-19 on theirs and their families lives. As a member of the youth club young people can the access other services delivered by the centre such as the Supplementary school and the karate club and other projects. All our youth workers were once members who became volunteers and then gained employment with us, its our way giving back to our community.
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How will the money be spent?Total £53,765
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VolunteerThe Al-Ghazali Centre is a community centre that responds to the needs of the diverse local community through the delivery and provision of social, educational and health programmes and activities. The centre stands as a resource for the community that develops children’s, young people’s and adults social and learning abilities within a safe environment and increases community participation and improves quality of life throughout the community. Over the past 29 years the centre has grown and expanded, starting with a small group of young people and delivering social activities in various buildings around the city to currently owning our own building in heart of the community and opening our doors to over 600 people per week.
Over the years we have gained great experience in delivering projects to the community that promote inclusion and cohesion.
The Al-Ghazali Youth club runs a variety of weekly sessions in and out of the centre for juniors and young people from the age of 8-12years and young people from 13-19years. It has been able to play an important part in contributing to reducing and discouraging youth crime and antisocial behaviour. Our activities are very popular and have attracted over 200 members.
The Education Project delivers a variety of educational activities for children, young people and adults in order to increase learning abilities, educational attainment, life chances and employability.
The Health Project seeks to actively raise awareness and promote healthy life style and increase people’s involvement in healthy activities and improve well-being.
The supplementary school delivers an Arabic language and cultural programme to children from the age of 5 to 17years, empowering them to develop their skills and confidence to engage and contribute actively in the community.
The Cultural project seeks to unite people from different cultural backgrounds to developing their skills and confidence. This project also provides information services, advocacy, signposting, completing forms, allotment club for elders, interfaith dialogue and community engagement events.
We needed to create more space and improve the condition of our building in order to deliver and meet demand. We were able to double the size of our Youth Club area in the basement of our building and now need to continue with some of finishing work (plastering and flooring) to reopen the area.
Project Owner: Al-Ghazali Multicultural Centre The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
Contractor: CPCMerseyside The team responsible for building or installing the project.