Shaftesbury is a large purpose-built youth club which offers a great range of activities including sports, recreation, education and personal development.
Staff include a full-time professional youth worker, a team of qualified part-time workers and a large, diverse voluntary staff, under the governance of a voluntary management committee.
Membership is open to all young people between the ages of eight and twenty-one on payment of an annual £2 membership fee and nightly 50p attendance subscriptions.
Over the school year membership exceeds seven hundred, with an average nightly attendance of over eighty.
The Youth Club is open on weekday evenings from 6pm to 9pm.
It is also open at weekends for football and during school holidays there is a 'sports camp' for young people.
