‘It’s a great place to find where you belong’: creating, curating and valuing place and space in open youth work

Figures & data

Table 1. Participating organisations.

Organisation pseudonym	Location	Approaches, spaces*	Organisation type
Dove Street Youth Project	North West; urban	Detached (street-based); girls’ and boys’ drop-ins in a borrowed church building; local sports hall	Charity
Fairlight Youth Club	London; urban	New purpose-built youth centre in block of mixed ownership flats	Local authority
Journeys	London / England-wide	Trans youth group borrowing other organisations’ spaces; shared voluntary sector office and meeting rooms.	Charity, social enterprise
Melham Youth Service	London; urban	Detached (street-based), mobile (youth bus) and outreach (outside schools)	Local authority
Opal Youth Club	London; urban	Purpose-built youth club	Charity
Riverpath	South West; rural, coastal, and urban	Purpose-built youth clubs	Charity, social enterprise
Seaside Youth Centre	South East; coastal	Purpose-built older youth club; online youth club during lockdown	Charity
The Vaults	North East; urban	Youth club in multi-use community centre; outreach	Charity

* These are the approaches and spaces that were the focus of the research. Many of the organisations engaged in additional types of provision (e.g. mentoring, schools work, sports).

Data availability statement

A dataset associated with this study is available at UK Data Service Reshare; see https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/855316/.