Groups and activities

Our open-access youth clubs run during term time on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. 5.30pm-7.30pm for our Wednesday art club and 6.30pm-8.30pm for Thursday youth club. Both clubs are held at Riverside Youth Hub. You don’t need to be a mentee – youth club is for everyone.

Youth Mentor Amy is always on hand with her team to welcome newcomers, but you can contact us if you’d like to speak to her before coming along. Mentors often bring young people for a taster session to see if they like it.

Youth clubs are for 11-19 year olds and they are open access, so you can come and go as you please. There’s always a choice of activities like games, art, xbox, pool and football, or just come and have a chat. We often choose something we want to cook, buy the ingredients, make it and eat it together.

In school holidays we always run daytime sessions for regular members, from wildlife spotting to sport to arts and crafts, often as guests in brilliant local settings such as Bath Rugby, the egg theatre or Holburne Museum.

We invite a 50p donation to attend youth club, but if you happen to forget, don’t worry. Transport is not provided for youth clubs.

All young people being mentored can choose to join in with our group activities. For mentees aged 11 and older our Youth Clubs run weekly in term time on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. For primary aged mentees we run activity days in the school holidays.

We provide transport for our primary activities and our Thursday Youth Club to support young people to attend these activities. Groups are run by our professional youth workers so there will always be a familiar face, and groups are small and well supported. Our Youth Clubs are held at Riverside Youth Hub trying out things like cookery, sport, music or art activities.

Our Youth Clubs also go out and about with specialist group leaders helping us try different activities like train trips, kayaking and nature walks. In every group activity, you always get to choose what you do and there’s no pressure so you can try something new – you might be great at it, and if not, you’ll have fun giving it a go.

Let your mentor or practitioner know if you’d like to try out an activity session. 

Our mentees often want to stay involved with Mentoring Plus after their mentoring year ends. A good way to do this is to come along to Youth Reps, our group which makes sure young people (age 14+) can co-design our activities and our service.

This weekly group meets every Monday evening in term time and gets involved with local community groups and projects, does fundraising, raises the profile of young people’s needs and speaks on behalf of the charity, with our support. We also make sure we have a good chat, share food and look after one another. Transport is provided.

Let your mentor or practitioner know if you’d like to come along to Youth Reps.