Find out what's happening in your area and how you can get involved...
Events
Southwark Youth Elections
Are you Aged 13–19 and live, work or go to school in Southwark? Community Council Youth Forums will be developing in your area made up of school representatives, youth club/ project members and individual young people who are not members of any clubs.
There will be four forums, based in: Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, Borough, Bankside and Walworth, Dulwich and Camberwell and Peckham, Nunhead and Peckham Rye.
Forum Members will: Represent the views of other young people , work with decision makers in Southwark and influence decisions that affect the lives of young people in your area. Find out more
here.
Skills for London
Do you know what kind of a career you want in the future? Check out
Skills London, the UK's biggest
FREE careers event for 14 to 19 year olds and find out what you could be doing when you start work. Taking place at ExCeL Centre , Docklands London on
20 to 22 November, you'll get a chance to try out new skills and get advice from industry insiders.
Contact :01823 362 800 or email: visit@skillslondon2008.co.uk
Film
Digital Story telling @ TATE> The London Transport Museum and Tate Modern hope to capture what living and travelling in the boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth means to local communities. Free workshops run in December at Tate Modern. Come along to a taster session before the Community Film Club screening to find out more. Click here.
Performance
Free Drama Workshops
If you are aged 12-18 years why not try out? From 6.30pm-7.30pm at ADI Centre, 218 Lambeth Road. Professional artists from the New International Company of Live Arts are running free taster workshops. Just turn up or call Michela on 07967 483977 to book your place or contact Eva at the ADI on 020 7928 6160 or Playltd@btconnect.com
Free Circus Skills workshops
On Wednesday 17 September from 6.30pm-8pm at ADI Centre, 218 Lambeth Road; check out free circus skills workshops for young people 12-18 years old. Meet professional artists from the New International Company of Live Arts who are running free taster workshops. Just turn up or call Michela on 07967 483977 to book your place or contact Eva at the ADI on 020 7928 6160 or Playltd@btconnect.com
Games
Project Gamerz
For anyone between 11-18 from the Riverside Ward. Get involved by playing computer games, eSports and 5-a-side football. Every Wednesday and Friday, 7-9pm @ Salmon Youth Centre , 43 Old Jamaica Road, SE16 4TE.
Contact: 02072373788.
Social
Southwark Scouts
For those aged 10-14 there is Scouts, for 14-18 year olds there is Explorer Scouts. Activities include camping, survival , adventure activties and extreme sports. Held @St Mary's Church, Kennington Park Road, Walworth, SE11 4JQ.
Contact: Keith Francis on 020 75827216 or email:k.francis@gold.ac.uk
Word! Hang Out Sessions
On Wednesday between 7-9.30pm Word! holds a mixture of film nights, open forums and debates in London SE5 . Free with refreshments.
Contact Sam: 07957639585 or visit www.word4u.co.uk
Southwark Young Advisors
If you are interested in local issues and want to have more of say in what goes on around you then Young Advisors may be for you. Young people aged between 15 and 21, get to show community leaders and decision makers how to engage young people in community life, regeneration and renewal. They have meetings throughout the year and there are several groups working in Southwark. For more information go to www.youngadvisors.org.uk.
@ The Salmon Youth Centre
The centre in Bermondsey runs a variety of social groups and activities throughout the week.
On Tuesday
10-19s Issue & Activity Based Clubs(call for details) 5.00pm to 10.00pm
Duke of Edinburgh Award Group 7.00pm to 8.00pm
Young Volunteers Group8.30pm to 9.30pm
On Wednesday
14-16s Mixed Club 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Telephone: 020 7237 3788
Email: info@salmoncentre.co.uk
Address: 19 Old Jamaica Road, SE16 4TE
