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The Britwell Youth and Community Project (BYCP) has been serving the children, young people and wider community of Britwell for almost 60 years. We are committed to enhance our work over the coming years in order to support Children and Young People to make a successful transition into adulthood.

BYCP provides a range of leisurely activities for young people afterschool and during the school holiday period in order to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities so that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society. Our beneficiaries include more than 400+ young people (aged 8+) who use our services each year as well as the wider community who as parents and carers have a safe environment to send their children too.

In 2010, Britwell Youth & Community Project was awarded the Queens Award for Voluntary Service. This unique UK national honour was created by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to mark the Golden Jubilee in 2002 and to recognise the outstanding contributions made to local communities by groups of volunteers. It has an equivalent status for voluntary groups as the MBE has for individuals.

Our story

BYCP has served the community of Britwell and surrounding areas for almost 60 years. The club was purpose built as a 'Boys Club' in the late 1950’s and worked in partnership with a youth centre further up Wentworth Avenue as well as a children’s play centre on Long Furlong Drive. Between the three sites, we managed to provide a much needed youth service to hundreds of children and young people every week.

In the 1990’s the 'Boys Club' changed its name to 'Britwell Youth and Community Project' (BYCP) which better reflected the work it was then engaged in. With the demise of Berkshire County Council and the arrival of Unitary Authorities in 1998, the new authority closed both the youth centre and the Children’s Play Centre, leaving BYCP as the only provider of youth services on the Britwell Estate.

BYCP has only survived because it is a voluntary centre, it is owned by it's trustees and is managed by it's own Management Committee. It has always had to raise a great proportion of its own running costs both in paying part time staff and the up keep and renovation of the building and the equipment.

The building is used primarily for youth related activity, but also houses other community groups on a regular basis.

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