Youth Clubs

Fratton Community Centre runs a variety of activities and events all year round for all ages:

Heart of Portsmouth Boxing Academy, Omega Street, Portsmouth PO54LP. Mon & Wed junior boxers. Tue & Thu Senior boxers ring David Johnson on 07885 797577.

Our newly rebranded The Kings School of Performing Arts (KSPA) have proudly run youth programmes in Portsmouth for over a decade.

We provide various opportunities to encourage young people to fulfil their passion and potential within the world of theatre. We offer weekly classes in singing, dancing and acting, with different sessions for all abilities, as well as our annual Community Youth Production and adult show choir, Resonate.

At The Kings School of Performing Arts, we have a commitment to delivering first class training in a supportive environment and to provide places to dedicated young performers that may not normally be able to attend by hosting a scholarship programme that will fund £25,000 worth of places in a year.

The PYC Service sits within Portsmouth City Council’s Housing, Neighbourhood and Buildings Directorate. Our locality based provision is supported by additional council funding and grants which enable us to offer open access services to all City residents.

PYC manages four community centres; provides six staffed adventure playgrounds and four youth clubs across the city and runs three additional youth projects. We also administer the HAF programme on behalf of the Children’s, Families and Education Directorate.

Play and Youth spaces support from early childhood in to adulthood, providing safe recreational spaces which are also informal educational environments, where children and young people are supported with their mental health and wellbeing.

Our staff receive specialist training in safeguarding and restorative practice, and in supporting children, young people and their families.

We run workshops in areas that impact children and young people, such as domestic abuse; healthy relationships; knife crime and exploitation; and eating healthily; thereby contributing as an early intervention service, reducing anti-social behaviour, risk of harm and improving life chances.

The objective of the adventure playgrounds is to offer ‘freely chosen play’ in adherence to Article 31 of the UN convention on the rights of the child to engage in play and recreational activity and participate freely in cultural life.

Youth work offers young people safe spaces to explore their identity, experience decision-making, increase their confidence, develop inter-personal skills and think through the consequences of their actions. This leads to better informed choices, changes in activity and improved outcomes for young people.

For further information please refer to our website : pycportsmouth.co.uk

Pompey in the Community promotes education, healthy living and sporting participation and achievement among people of all ages.

Portsmouth Music Hub aims to transform lives through music.

Spirit in Sport is a not-for-profit community sports organisation which operates from St Jude's Church, Southsea.

The Tall Ships Youth Trust is a charity that offers young people, from all walks of life, unique physically and mentally challenging experiences at sea. The aim is to develop their long-term life skills including team working, confidence and problem solving skills. The charity also offers adventure voyages for adults which support their Youth Development Programme.

The Urban Vocal Group (UVG) is a multi-award-winning music organisation that uses singing as a gateway to further participation in music, develop transferable skills and foster positive mental health and wellbeing in young people aged 10 - 25.

Victory Hants offer inclusive sporting and leisure opportunities to individuals aged 16+ with a history of homelessness, mental health or in recovery from substance misuse issues, learning disabilities, physically unabled ,visually/hearing impaired, LGBT in order to raise confidence, build self esteem and to engage with community learning opportunities, training, work trials or volunteering opportunities to achieve self sustainable, self reliant futures.