Harbour
What? A free drop in Youth Club including pool table, X box, table football, crafts, baking, card games, hot chocolate and more!
Who? 11-16s
Timings? Term Time Wednesdays 6.30-8pm.
Location? Church Hall, St James & St Christopher, 417-423 Bellhouse Road, S5 0RB
Stomp Kids Club
What? A free kids club with different activities each week including games, crafts, prizes, stories and more!
Who? 7-11s
Timings? Term Time Thursdays 5.30-6.30pm
Location? Shiregreen Community Centre, Sicey Avenue, S5 0RN
Forge North Football
What? A free, open football session for young people.
Who? 11-16s
Timings? Term-time Mondays, 6-7.30pm
Where? Concord Sports Centre, 3G Football Pitches
You don’t need to book a space – you can just turn up at the right time. Whoever comes along, we get some matches going between the young people.
We have a Christian ethos across all our projects. This means that anyone is welcome, regardless of religion, background or ability. We don’t want anything to stop you from enjoying your football, so the session is free to young people, and there is a great team there to look after you and make you feel welcome.
We want football to be played with a positive attitude, where people give their best and are positive towards teammates, opposition and leaders. We want to encourage and build up the team and young people to be leaders and give opportunities for them to step up in sports leadership.
For more information, head to our Forge North Football and sports page: www.forgeyouth.com. or email Chris Nall for more information: chrisnall@shiregreenchurch.org
Who are Forge Youth?
We have been working with young people in Shiregreen for over 15 years. The Shiregreen team is made up of a dedicated group of volunteers, many of whom live in the local area and are building community there.
Forge Youth is a Christian project working with children and young people across Sheffield. We are committed to making a positive difference to children in Sheffield and building safe, encouraging communities where children and young people can belong, explore a faith and other positive life choices, allowing them to experience life to the full.
We work with young people in youth clubs, kids’ clubs, sports sessions, residentials, trips and schools. Our experience has shown that if we can have multiple points of contact with a young person, the positive impact increases and we seek to connect young people across our work
A brief History of Forge Youth
Forge Youth began in 2007, led by Rick Atkinson as part of Network Church Sheffield.
As the church wanted to serve the wider city and not just their geographical area, we found that we were working with young people from many different backgrounds and many different experiences of faith. God started moving amongst the young people, and we saw him break into many young people’s lives, yet something wasn’t quite working. It seemed that no matter how big or how professional we made the youth events that we were running, we never quite seemed to meet the needs of the young people.
Some people found that there wasn’t enough prayer, some people just wanted to run around, some people found the music too rocky and some people said it was too hip-hop! We also found that leaders were too busy running events to actually hang out with the young people – which is why we started in the first place!
Then we had a thought – why are we trying to make it big when we could make it good?
We decided to rethink our approach. Instead of having big events that everyone attended, we decided to launch a network of youth projects, each one shaped to fit the community it was working with. This meant that each of the leaders could build real relationships with the young people, and they would notice when they weren’t there! It also meant that the young people themselves could shape their youth work – let it look how they wanted it to and serve them how they needed.