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

Family friendly provision for young people in Tower Hamlets.

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 7-18-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
Arts Award

What is Arts Award?
Support young people to grow their creativity and gain 21st century skills

Arts Award takes children and young people on a creative journey, exploring the arts world, discovering their potential as artists, developing leadership skills – and gaining a recognised qualification along the way. Open to anyone aged 25 or under, this unique set of arts qualifications builds skills essential for success in the 21st century: Creativity and communication, along with problem-solving, reflective-thinking and confidence.

Young people can achieve Arts Award in any art form, through the five levels – Discover, Explore, Bronze, Silver and Gold – young people:

Enjoy creating and participating in arts activities.
Through Arts Award, young people get actively involved in creative activities and produce their own art work . Those working towards the higher levels collaborate with artists to try a genre or art form new to them too.

Experience arts events and explore the work of artists.
Arts Award connects young people with the arts world – as the audience or visitor, behind the scenes, learning from creative professionals, or researching the work of artists and arts organisations. At higher levels, participants review and share their experiences, gaining critical-thinking and organisational skills.

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.

May Half-Term Programme Plan
Dates - 27, 28, 29 May 2025

A week-long half term programme for young people aged 7-16 at Island Point Community Centre, incorporating creative activities and travelling on the Docklands Light Railway visiting Greenwich Maritime Museum, Guildhall Art Gallery and V&A East in Stratford.

April Easter Holiday Programme Plan
Dates - 8-17 April 2025

Easter holiday provision with enrichment activities, which included creative workshops and trips to Young V&A Museum, Canary Wharf Big Egg Hunt, Greenwich Maritime Museum, Royal Naval College, Tower of London and Tate Modern

We accommodated on a first come basis to registered participants, activities consisting of physical and creative workshops, and a end of project awards ceremony on the final day to conclude the programme.

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.