An exciting new Bracknell youth centre in the heart of Great Hollands is one step closer to opening after the council’s planning team gave the application the thumbs up.
The Bracknell youth centre will be located in the Great Hollands’ neighbourhood centre and will offer a variety of programmes for young people throughout the day and evening.
The new youth centre already has a name – The Zone – and a logo, which were both designed and created by the young people who will be using it.
And designs for the layout of the centre – which will be a place for Bracknell 13-19 year-olds from Great Hollands, Birch Hill and Jennett’s Park – have been suggested following a weekend away in conjunction with Berkshire Association of Clubs for Young People (BACYP).
Debbie Coleman, Great Hollands area youth worker, said: Plans are well underway for the new youth centre, and we have been working closely with the local community to make sure we give the centre users what they want.
We took a group of 11 young people away on a residential weekend recently and we asked them what they wanted from their youth workers and what they wanted to gain from having a new youth centre in Great Hollands. We also used the weekend to work out the types of activities that they would like to see at The Zone."
Cllr Gareth Barnard, executive member for Bracknell children and young people, said: This is a really exciting project which will provide a place for the young people of Great Hollands which has been designed by them.
"It will be a place to meet in the heart of the community offering many diverse activities and support."
Bracknell Forest Council