The Monday-evening Youth Club founded around 2008 (running 7 years by 2015) Leader of record (2015): Sister Claudette Witter [Current leader — to confirm]

The Youth ministry at HBC has taken many forms across the generations: the “Mayflower” Band of Hope (founded 25 April 1892), the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavour (14 March 1893), the Young Men’s Society and the Young Men’s Guild of the 1920s, the Girls Brigade (formed June 1921 under Miss Gladys Croft), the Boys Brigade (23 London company), the Boys Club (replacing the BB in 1975), the Young People’s Bible Study group on Sunday afternoons (begun 1976), and many others.

The current Youth Club has run for over fifteen years — Sister Claudette Witter wrote in 2015 that “The church has a youth club which has been running for the past seven years.” It meets on Monday evenings from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm and is open to young people from the wider community as well as church families. As Sister Witter described it: “The aim of the club is to encourage our young people in the community to have somewhere they go to talk and relax and at the same time study the word of God. It provides a platform whereby young people could interact with each other and unite them through games and sports. It also presents the opportunity for young people to stay away from gangs or the wrong crowd and to learn to interact and accept each other as friends in the youth club.”

The club has hosted speakers including the police and health professionals (on crime and sexual health), and has organised outings to the theatre, ten-pin bowling, restaurants and other social events. It is one of HBC’s most visible bridges into the wider community of Harlesden’s young people.

Sources: [125th] pp. 52–53; [Centenary] (long historical record of youth ministry); [Web History].