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Historic Lambton Street Youth & Community Hub gets a refurbishment
National World - LocalTV
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18/04/2024
Celebration of the historic Lambton Street Youth & Community Hub’s refurbishment officially opened by Northumbria Police & Crime Commissioner, Kim McGuinness.
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Well there hasn't been a lot of investment over the last 20 years maybe in youth centres.
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They're very important to young people. Young people need somewhere to go in the evening.
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We're trying to get young people there. The idea is with young people is to bring them
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into the centre, empower them, give them activities and a positive lifestyle. We're trying to
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educate them or get them ready for adulthood and that's all we're trying to do with them.
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Sunderland's Lambton Street Youth and Community Hub is an award-winning organisation originally
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established in 1901 and is one of the oldest youth and community centres in Europe. Originally
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a boys club and synonymous with boxing, the organisation has evolved over the years to
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become a youth and community hub for everyone. I come here today to see a centre in the heart
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of a community for young people that has had investment in it, central government investment
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through the Youth Investment Fund to make it look brighter and smarter and improve the
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facilities for young people is a really good thing to celebrate.
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The official opening of the new refurbishment was carried out by Northumbria Police and
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Crime Commissioner Kim McGuinness and attended by the Mayor and Mayoress of Sunderland. Lambton
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Street is currently at a historic junction with manager of 33 years Kevin Howard stepping
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down and handing over to the centre's first ever female manager, Marie Mould.
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You know I would like in the next five years for us to be providing more of these places
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for young people. Everyone should have access to a trusted mentor away from home and school,
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everyone should have access to things like the sports and the arts and the culture and
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the opportunity to come together that places like this have. We're all here this evening
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for an event to reopen this building but while we're here all of those activities are still
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going on, you know there's boxing going on, there's judo going on, there's dancing, they're
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in the gym. It's packed and it shows you that if you provide this people use it and they
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need it and they appreciate it and they want it.
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