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Simon Hughes MPRepresenting Southwark and Bermondsey since 1983 |
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Hughes welcomes progress in new plan for Downside Fisher
March 18, 2009 12:00 AM
Simon Hughes this week welcomed an agreement, reached after many months of negotiation, for new working arrangements between Downside Fisher Youth Club and Training for Life, the organisation which has taken a 25 year lease on the club buildings in Coxson Place.
Simon was told of the agreement last week after a further round of meetings he held with Downside and TFL representatives. The new plans will see Downside retaining the management of the youth club activities while TFL manage the other activities in the building.
Simon has been involved for several months in trying to broker a satisfactory agreement between the trustees, workers and members in the old club and the managers of the new organisation.
"As a former voluntary youth leader in Southwark, I take a special interest in making sure we have youth centres which are used to the full and reach out to the maximum number of local young people. I really hope now that the final agreement between Downside Fisher and TFL can be signed so that everybody can have confidence in the way the refurbished building in Coxson Place will be used. I look forward to the selection of the new centre manager and senior youth leader and hope many good and qualified youth workers will apply.
It will be great if the Downside Fisher building known to so many Bermondsey families over the years can be fully operational - swimming pool, rooftop pitch and all - in the next few months. Together with the Fisher Boxing Club, at the moment in Riley Road, and the new Salmon Youth Centre in Old Jamaica Road, Bermondsey has at its heart, two great refurbished buildings which can be a huge and positive resource for local young people. I hope both clubs will eventually be able to be open for youth work six or seven days a week so that never again will Bermondsey young people be able to complain with any justification that there is 'nothing round here to do!'
The club is always keen to encourage volunteers to help out in the community, particularly people who are interested in youth work. If you think you might be able to give up some time please pop into the club to see how you can help."
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