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Youth Clubs
In the Victorian era the establishment of the YMCA can be seen as a starting point for empathetic provision for those between childhood and adulthood. In 1863 the Rev Arthur Sweatman identified the need to provide more secular evening alternatives to hanging around on street corners. In 1911 the National Organization of Girls Clubs (now known as Youth UK) came into being.
Somehow it became a metaphor for juvenile delinquency, one many people seem ready to demonise. Even the Kray Brothers had a tame priest from their East End youth club to speak up for them when they were in trouble. Agatha Christie also tended to depict them in an unfavourable light. But for many, they were that first chance to go somewhere less formal than school or church and just "hang out".
Somehow it became a metaphor for juvenile delinquency, one many people seem ready to demonise. Even the Kray Brothers had a tame priest from their East End youth club to speak up for them when they were in trouble. Agatha Christie also tended to depict them in an unfavourable light. But for many, they were that first chance to go somewhere less formal than school or church and just "hang out".
by Basher Eyre
Created: Wed, 29 Dec 2021, Updated: Wed, 29 Dec 2021
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