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We are thrilled to announce that tickets for this year's HubFest are now live! Join us on Saturday 10th October for a fantastic evening of live music, fundraising and community spirit - all in support of The Hub's youth provision. By popular demand, Camellia and the Wallflowers are back to keep you dancing all night with the classics! We'll also have a raffle packed with brilliant prizes from local businesses (more details coming soon), a silent auction with some incredible

Have a look at our volunteers trying out the new garden furniture!🤩 Thanks to donations and fundraising, we have been able to upgrade our outdoor seating area. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed 🙏

In June, our very own Katie is celebrating an incredible 10 years at The Hub! 🫶 Katie, thank you for a decade of dedication, care, passion and unwavering love for The Hub and everything it stands for. Your kindness, hard work and commitment have made The Hub what it is🌟🤩

On Saturday 13th June, we held our third annual Hub Summer Fair! Our young people worked so hard organising and setting up the event and they helped alongside our wonderful volunteers on the car wash, tombola, coconut shy and all our other stalls. Thank you to everyone who came along to support them - it was great to see so many members of the community! Another huge thank you to everyone who donated tombola prizes - your support is so appreciated. We hope everyone who joined

Over the last few weeks, we've welcomed Year 6 pupils from Claygate Primary School, Rowan and Cranmere to give them a taste of what our Hub sessions are all about. From epic pool, air hockey and FIFA showdowns to decorating pebbles and badges, making mini pizzas, icing cakes and more, there was something for everyone to enjoy! A huge thank you to all three schools for making these visits possible. It was brilliant to meet so many fantastic young people, and we hope everyone h

Here are our summer youth session opening hours!🌞 Drop-in Hub Sessions: - Thursday 23rd July: 7-8:30pm - Thursday 30th July: 7-8:30pm - Thursday 6th August: 7-8:30pm - Thursday 13th August: 7-8:30pm Hub Summer Fridays (need to book on here) - Friday 24th July: 10am - 2pm - Friday 31st July: 10am - 2pm - Friday 7th August: 10am - 2pm Sports Drop is closed for the summer. We will be back to normal sessions in September.

Booking for this year's Hub Summer Fridays is now open ☀ We are running three completely free sessions from 10am - 2pm during the summer holidays thanks to Surrey County Council's HAF (holidays and food) project. Each session features a main activity (details below) plus sports, arts and crafts, cooking, a hot meal, gaming and more! Friday 24th July: Hub Olympics Friday 31st July: Pottery Painting Friday 7th August: Japanese Restaurant These sessions are for current Year 6s -

This Sunday, the Hub's Repair Cafe is back. Bring along any bikes, clothes or soft furnishings in need of a fix and our fantastic team of volunteers will help make them as good as new! 🚲🪡 This is a free service which is open to everyone. Voluntary donations are encouraged to help cover costs and support The Hub's youth work. What is a Repair Cafe? A Repair Café is a community-driven initiative that encourages people to repair their broken items rather than discarding them.

On Tuesday, Thames Ditton and Esher Golf Club treated 18 of our Hub members to a great time on the green. 🏌⛳ Members of the golf club went around three holes with our young people, gave lessons with the practice nets and held a putting competition before we all sat down for pizza and refreshments. Henry and Maja had a put-off with Henry winning by one (although Katie beat the both of them🤐). All our Hub members were super keen and got involved - it's great to see some newfo

We are super excited for this year's Hub Summer Fair on Saturday 13th June from 11am to 2pm! 🌞 There will be lots of fun activities like a lucky dip, games and a tombola. For a tombola, we, of course, need some prizes! If you have any unwanted gifts lying around like children's toys, unopened biscuit tins, alcohol or anything else (no chocolate though please as it will melt!) we would be very grateful. If you do have anything to donate, please get in touch (katie.holmes@clay

This year marks 10 years since Andy has been a volunteer here at The Hub. We've chosen a few of our favourite memories to share to mark this huge milestone. Thank you for everything you do here, Andy. From the hard work around the building, to running youth sessions, to organising HubFest - The Hub wouldn't be The Hub without you

Well, it was a hot day at The Hub, and who needs an excuse for a water fight anyway??!

We are excited to announce that this year's Hub Summer Fair will take place on Saturday 13th June, 11am - 2pm! The Hub Summer Fair is an annual event run by Hub members aged 11-19. They play a key role in organising and running it, practising their organisational and fundraising skills. With a BBQ, car wash, games, stalls, a tombola, a lucky dip and more, it's a fun day out for all ages and all money raised goes towards The Hub's youth provision. Do you have any unwanted gift

Our next Bike and Fabric Repair Cafe will take place on Sunday 19th July, 10am - 11:30am. Bring along any bikes, clothes or soft furnishings in need of a fix, alteration or new part, and our friendly team of repairers will do their best to help you out! This is a free service which is open to everyone. Voluntary donations are encouraged to help cover costs and support The Hub's youth work. What is a Repair Cafe? A Repair Café is a community-driven initiative that encourages p

We want to say a huge thank you to Claygate Gardening Society for their kind donation of six tomato plants for our outdoor planters. We're dutifully watering and sunning them in the office and will plant them soon during a Hub session! We look forward to using the tomatoes for some Hub cooking in the future

Saturday 18th April and some of the Hub's volunteers and young people were delighted to again help the Clean Up Claygate campaign. Great work guys!

Last month, The Hub held its first joint Bike and Fabric Repair Cafe. 7 fantastic volunteer repairers saw 25 items and fully fixed 23. Thank you to everyone who attended! Our next Bike and Fabric Repair Cafe will take place on Saturday 16th May, 10am - 11:30am. Bring along any bikes, clothes or soft furnishings in need of a fix, alteration or new part, and our friendly team of repairers will do their best to help you out! This is a free service which is open to everyone. Volu

On Thursday 26th March, our Thursday night Hub session was transformed into a (silent) disco. The lights were flashing, the music was pumping, and everyone was dancing the evening away. It was a joy to see everyone having fun. We also welcomed over fifty young people to The Hub, our second largest number of attendees ever! Thank you to everyone who supports The Hub for making this possible.

Sports Drop is back this evening! On Wednesdays from 6:30–8:00pm, The Hub teams up with Platform Sports to bring you fun, drop-in sports sessions for Year 6s, Year 7s and Year 8s. 💷 Just £2 on the door 🏈 Try something new like American football, bubble football, boxing and loads more!

From Katie Holmes - Manager and Youth Worker I am really please to announce that Claygate Youth & Community Hub has been awarded the High Sheriff of Surrey award. We were invited to an event in Guildford along with 30 other recipients and able to take some of our longest serving volunteers. Such a huge honour and I'm so grateful to The High Sheriff - Peter Cluff and his wonderful wife Suzanne for the support they've shown us. Last November they came along to a Hub session, ro