Shaftesbury Youth Club can trace it’s roots back to 1886. First established in Birkenhead, the club moved to it’s current site in Tranmere in 1971 with the provision of a brand new building.

The club now offers a wide range of sporting, cultural and educational facilities to over 1000 girls and boys aged between eight and twenty-one years in a disciplined and safe environment under the guidance of professional youth workers, coaches and adult volunteer helpers. The club is open six evenings a week and daytime at weekend, after school and during school holidays.

Youngsters have the opportunity to participate in outward bound activities plus exchanges with other European clubs.

The clubs facilities, which are also available for community hire, include a sports hall, computer suite, café area, seminar rooms, plus two grass and two floodlit astro-turf pitches.

The club is a charitable organisation and its success depends not only on a voluntary committee that aims to manage the centre and assist with fund raising but also the financial support of the wider community.

In addition to the youth facilities, the club inaugurated a ‘community project’ strand to their work and aims to provide facilities for a wide range of community groups including the Mount Estate Mums & Tots Group which delivers a valuable service to the local young families. Adjacent to the Club, sits Tranmere Rovers Football Club who also utilise our facility for providing educational programmes for their youth teams.