Youth Clubs can often struggle to find inspiration when looking to reinvigorate and update their facilities; this can prevent clubs from attracting new young people from within the community to use the fantastic services clubs provide. Many Youth Club’s offer activities such as boxing, arts and crafts, athletics and sports, recreation, education, personal development, and are usually open to all young people between the ages of 8 ? 21 years old.
So, how can Fired Up Technologies help Youth Clubs level up?
#The Problem
There are already a wide variety of places that young people can go ? although this varies significantly between neighbourhoods. In England there are approximately 12,000 youth clubs. However, young people still say that they do not like the facilities that are available in their area. For many, ?hanging around? shopping malls and streets is not something they choose to do; it is because there are no attractive alternatives. Among nearly 1,000 young people consulted during a Review, only?37 per cent felt that there was a good choice of things for them to do in their local area.
To combat this, Youth Clubs need to keep pace and attract new demographics to their facilities, ensuring all visitors are engaged and remain interested; especially when trying to appeal to the younger generations and digital natives, as young people have more sophisticated expectations than previous generations.
#The Solution
All young people should be able to benefit from high quality opportunities in their leisure time. While more are participating than ever before, it is still the most disadvantaged and marginalised young people who are missing out on enjoyable activities that offer the chance to mix with others and gain a sense of achievement. The challenge is to make services available that are both attractive to all young people and effective in reaching out to engage those who may not otherwise access them
Several Youth Centre’s we have worked with recently were searching around for products to help bring some new energy to their facilities. Fired Up Technologies is a company that helps businesses diversify what they offer and give their facility a new lease of life with our range of innovative, interactive products.
For example, we have recently helped?Knowsley Youth Mutual?with their search for fresh innovative technology. Our Fired Up Technologies team conducted a thorough site visit to establish the wants and needs of Youth Club and presented a suite of solutions that would work best to help them achieve their vision.
The Knowsley Youth Club team decided on a product called Valo Climb to help diversify the offers of their club’s facilities and attract younger people with ever-increasing digital expectations.
Valo Climb?is the world?s first interactive game platform for climbing walls. It is a beautifully designed fully interactive game which combines movement with modern gaming for active fun. Fired Up Technologies integrated two?Valo Climb walls into Knowsley Youth Mutual, complete with all the required safety features.
Valo Climb has proved to be such a popular addition to their Youth Club, attracting new young people from the community to use the club on a more frequent basis as Valo Climb enables them to try something new, as well as stay active through the use of modern interactive gamification.. but most importantly HAVE FUN!!
For more information on how we can help your Youth Club please just get in touch with us at:
sales@bwt.mfc.mybluehost.me?] 01484 766 670 ]?www.fireduptech.co.uk