MEET the WEST Youth Zone Young People’s Development Group… This amazing group is leading the way with the development of WEST Youth Zone. Representing young people from across Hammersmith and Fulham, they are making a number of key decisions throughout the process from staff interviews to interior designs, from what goes on the hoardings around […]
Construction on WEST Youth Zone has reached its first big landmark, with the completion of the building’s steel frame. Contractors Bowmer and Kirkland began work on the Youth Zone, which is being developed by the national charity OnSide, earlier this year and it’s due to be completed late next year. The development will continue with the […]
Supporters of WEST Youth Zone were welcomed onto the construction site for a sneak peek at progress being made. Guests were given an update by WEST Chair Mark Davies and OnSide Deputy Chief Executive Rob Carter about the project and Hammersmith & Fulham Council Leader Steve Cowan also spoke about why he believes the Youth […]
Supporters and young people gathered to celebrate the beginning of work on WEST Youth Zone. Hosted by chair Mark Davies at Scale Space in White City, guests were given an update on the project and a special insight as to what this amazing place will bring to the Hammersmith and Fulham community. Phillipe Andreewich, a member […]
Work is now underway on WEST Youth Zone and Ed City. Diggers are now on site at South Africa Road beginning the process which will see WEST opening to Hammersmith and Fulham’s young people in 2023. WEST will provide young people aged 8-19 (and up to 25 for those with additional needs) affordable access to […]
The Youth Zone, which was named WEST (standing for Where Everyone Sticks Together) after a vote by nearly 3,000 local young people, is being developed by the national charity OnSide, which has a network of 14 similar centres across the UK. Once developed, it will be run as an independent, local charity as a unique […]
Work is set to begin on EdCity, the £150m not-for-profit regeneration scheme that will include WEST Youth Zone in Hammersmith and Fulham, this month. This follows approval of an agreement between Ark, a national education charity, and Hammersmith & Fulham Council (H&F). EdCity will bring improved community facilities, new affordable homes and an innovative education hub […]
With news that OnSide is set to open a Youth Zone in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, we’ve set up a Young People’s Development Group in the area. This fantastic group will work with the charity to help us understand exactly what issues young people in the borough are facing to enable us […]
Hammersmith and Fulham Youth Zone, named by young people as ‘West’, is a new charity that will develop a purpose-built facility for the borough’s young people aged 8 – 19, and up to 25 for those with additional needs. The Youth Zone will be part of a EdCity, a new Education hub based in White City. […]
Over 2,700 local young people have officially named Hammersmith and Fulham’s OnSide Youth Zone ‘West’. West Youth Zone, standing for ‘Where Everyone Sticks Together’, will open in 2021 and will be part of EdCity, a major new education hub that will benefit thousands of children and young people for years to come and help to […]
Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council last night approved a proposal for a major new education charity hub – paving the way for a scheme that will benefit thousands of children and young people for years to come and help to regenerate the White City area. The EdCity development was brought forward by the education charity […]
An innovative education hub, known as EdCity, with a Youth Zone, new school, nursery, adult education centre and affordable housing will be built in White City, after Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s Planning and Development Control Committee unanimously resolved to grant planning permission. The plans will see the site, currently occupied by Ark Swift Primary Academy, […]
