‘Not just a building – we inspire hope, facilitate support and make opportunities possible for young people.’
Jetty Lane is a charity which aims to provide facilities 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.
