Jetty Lane Youth Hub
‘Not just a building – we inspire hope, facilitate support and make opportunities possible for young people’
Jetty Lane is a charity with the key aim of providing a site and buildings that enable partners to deliver creative opportunities to engage, unite and inspire local young people in the Suffolk coastal area to achieve our vision of promoting social and cultural connectedness and bringing our community together via arts, culture and wellbeing activities.
Jetty Lane was founded in 2017 as a community initiative after the demolition of the Woodbridge Youth Centre on the site. The creation of the charity saved the site for community use and aims to replace this youth facility.
We are not a service provider – we are a facilitator and promoter of events and opportunities for young people in the Suffolk coastal area.
Today we are a registered CIO (Registered Charity Number 1184713) run by a committed group of Trustees with the help of a growing number of local volunteers, professional experts and supporters.
We serve the community of Suffolk coastal – particularly Woodbridge and the surrounding rural villages. Our beneficiaries are local children and young people, with particular emphasis on those who face barriers to accessing youth-specific opportunities. Barriers occur for a variety of reasons. With stakeholders, we will assist in identifying the various barriers met by our young people and facilitate high quality creative and cultural activities.
Barriers identified so far include: neurodiversity, poverty, lack of transport, rural isolation, poor attitudes to young people by others in the community, mental & physical ill health, family conflicts and disturbance, school not working for them, unhelpful peer group pressures, bullying.
Where is the site?
Jetty Lane is near the River Deben in the centre of Woodbridge, Suffolk.
It is very near other key facilities, such as a large car park, train station and buses, several cafés, public toilets, the Riverside Cinema, a skatepark, Kingston Playing Field and Deben Leisure Centre.
OUR RATIONALE -
OUR ‘STORY’
Our Vision
To promote social and cultural connectedness to bring our community together via arts, culture and wellbeing activities.
Our Mission
Our Mission is to reinstate and extend the lost youth centre in Woodbridge, Suffolk, by building a new Youth Hub. This will provide a purpose-built, sustainable space for children and young people in the Woodbridge area and facilitate creativity and culture.
Our Values
Nurture creativity, cultural and artistic growth and wellbeing, and encourage
entrepreneurial activityRun by and for the people of Woodbridge and the surrounding area
Put community first
Collaborative
Open-minded
Forward-thinking
Celebrate participation and achievement
Intergenerational
Inclusive and equal
Learning & reflective organisation
Apolitical and not aligned to any particular religion.
Our Achievements
All our achievements are thanks to the time, vision, commitment and dedication of a small diverse group of local Trustees, Volunteers and Supporters:
New Plans in 2024 for the Redevelopment of the Site:
To build a simple, low-cost, low-impact building over two stories. This will provide a permanent office for Children and Young People's Charity Just42, a permanent space for the Vintage Litter Museum, a Hall available to rent by multi-generational and young people’s organisations, and a double-height Foyer which will be suitable for pop-up events and exhibitions and informal meet-ups.
We also plan to create an outdoor Playscape which can be used as a flexible workshop, play and performance space, to increase the ways the site can be used.
We plan a sustainable building using green technology.
Prize & Award Nominations
East Suffolk Council: Community Next Big Idea Award 2023
Can you help us deliver a vibrant, new, youth arts centre for Woodbridge and the surrounding area?
Make a Donation
Making a donation to Jetty Lane is an opportunity to make a real and positive difference to local people and to back the building of an iconic landmark. The centre will benefit many people, groups and organisations in Woodbridge and the surrounding areas for generations to come.
Become a Friend of Jetty Lane by donating a regular monthly amount of any sum you wish.
