Trapped in Zone One - After-School Youth Programme and School Holidays, Activities and Food Programme.

Family friendly provision for young people in Tower Hamlets.

April Easter Holiday Programme Plan
Dates: 8-10 & 15-17 April 2025

A series of creative enrichment activities for young people aged 7-14 at Island Point Community Centre during Easter holidays with a creative workshops and trips to galleries and museums.

DATE: 8-10 and 15-17 April 2025
TIME: 12:00-16:00
VENUE: Island Point Community Centre, 51 Sark Mews, Isle of Dogs, London, E14 3PW

Tuesday 8 April: Trip to Young V&A Museum (Making Egypt Exhibition) in Bethnal Green. (A pack lunch will need to be brought)

Wednesday 9 April: Trip to Canary Wharf Big Egg Hunt. (A pack lunch will need to be brought)

Thursday 10 April: Trip to Greenwich Maritime Museum. (A pack lunch will need to be brought)

Tuesday 15 April: Trip to Royal Naval College in Greenwich. (A pack lunch will need to be brought)

Wednesday 16 April: Trip to Tower of London. (A pack lunch will need to be brought)

Thursday 17 April: Trip to Tate Modern Gallery. (A pack lunch will need to be brought)

Note: The plan above is subject to change, dependant to weather.

We are able accommodate on a first come basis once registered, with the activities consisting of physical and creative workshops, and a end of project awards ceremony on the final day to conclude the programme.

ABOUT

Tower of London - Easter Live performance

Did you know that the famous poet Geoffrey Chaucer worked at the Tower of London? This Easter find out more about his role as Clerk of the King’s Works, and how he balanced the demands of the job with a yearning to get back to his writing.

Look out for Chaucer, as he goes about his busy working day, overseeing the extension of the Tower of London Wharf. With deadlines to meet, he really can’t afford to be distracted.

But his day will be interrupted by four medieval characters who keep popping up around him, wanting to tell their stories. It seems they will go to great lengths to get his attention, adopting all manner of distraction techniques, from storytelling to bell-ringing hats.

After-School Provision
Every Monday, 17:00-19:00

Our after-school programme takes places every Monday for young people to engage with creative enrichment activities, open to 10–18-year-olds from Tower Hamlets.

The sessions will provide an opportunity to join, our:

Youth Board
Creative Activities
Youth Excursions
Social Action Projects
Training and Development Workshops
Work Experience Placement
Jack Petchey Achievement Award Scheme

DATE: Every Monday
TIME: 17:00-19:00
VENUE: Island Point Community Centre, 51 Sark Mews, Isle of Dogs, London, E14 3PW

The sessions will align our work with Skills Builder Partnership which is is a global movement of employers, educators, and impact organisations working together to ensure that one day, everyone builds the essential skills to succeed.

Essential skills unlock learning in the classroom, boosting academic outcomes, perseverance, and self-belief. They halve the likelihood of being out of work and increase earnings across a lifetime. They even boost wellbeing and life satisfaction.

These skills underpin an individual’s success at each stage in life and support all young people in developing their independence. We will focus on four essential skills day during the weekly sessions:

Speaking - The oral transmission of information or ideas.
Listening - The receiving, retaining, and processing of information or ideas.
Teamwork - Working cooperatively with others towards achieving a shared goal.
Creativity - The use of imagination and the generation of new ideas.

We’ll collate feedback from activities with Reflection Sessions.

February Half-Term Programme Plan
Dates - 18, 19 & 21 Feb 2025

A week-long half term programme at Island Point Community Centre with a creative workshops exploring culture and heritage for International Mother Language Day, trip to Young V&A Museum to visit Making Egypt exhibition and Tower of London to see the Colonel Blood and the Theft of the Crown Jewels performance.

October Half-Term Programme Plan
Dates - 29, 30 & 31 Oct 2024

A series of creative workshop at Island Point Community Centre during half-term with London College of Fashion graduate Scarlet Gey hosting a textile printing workshop, Docklands Light Railway with a drawing workshops and we’ll be exploring culture and heritage to create Alpona art, which is a traditional folk-art form from Bangladesh with a focus on ‘Hope’, this years theme for A Season of Bangla Drama Festival in Tower Hamlets.

What is Alpana? Alpona (Bengali: আলপনা) is a Bengali folk-art style, traditionally practiced by women, and consisting of colored motifs, patterns, and symbols that are painted on floors and walls with paints made from rice flour, on religious occasions.

Winter ‘24 School Holiday Programme Plan
Dates - 23, 24 & 27 Dec 2024

A week-long programme from the 23rd to 27th December 2024 (excluding Christmas Day & Boxing Day) for young people aged 5-16 from Tower Hamlets, providing enrichment activities during the school holidays with FREE refreshment for eligible participants. Workshop consisted a nature workshop to create bug hotels. Bug hotels are to help to encourage pollination and biodiversity as they attract an array of insects such as bees and butterflies. By creating your own bug hotel, you are helping to improve your local ecosystem. They are a fantastic way for young people to connect with nature. We will be making our own DIY bug hotels from items that you can find at home and in your local outdoor areas.