Peckham Park Road
Peckham Park Youth Project is a charitable organisation set up to meet the needs of the young people in the community. It is a place for young people who are looking for a quiet place to study and get off the streets where they can feel safe. Peckham Park Youth Project provides a system that motivates and helps these young people to follow in the right direction.
Andre, member of the Peckham Park Youth Project comments “we are all aware that the young people in the community are failing their exams and people assume that it is because these young people don’t want to work and that they are lazy, but if you don’t have a place to study and revise or to do your homework how are they suppose to pass your exams. It is as simple”
The Quiet Room
The quiet study room utilised a disused area in the back of the Peckham Park Road Baptist church. The idea behind the room is to provide an place where children from the local community can study, revise, be taught and utilise the computers provided within in a noise and distraction free environment.
Many of the children from the local community do not have this privilege within their own homes and often having to share a room with another family member or living in a house which is not conducive to study.
Dominic’s input to this has been to provide funding in order to finish the work already done on the room. This included providing hard wearing carpet tiles, furniture including computer and study desks, study chairs, sofas as well as other office equipment. In addition to this, a network of 5 computers was supplied and including all software and sufficient security solutions to ensure of the safety of the children. Finally funding was also provided for a full time assistant in the quiet room. He/She will provide a full time presence in the room to support the children in their work.
Since the official opening of the room on the 6th of September, a flyer has been produced by Andre and his team that has been distributed amongst the local community and has been well received. Please watch this space for further developments
It is also worth noting that the room was provided by Anne at the Peckham Park Road Baptist Church, who realises the benefits of a more active involvement by the Church in the local community can provide.
