Celebrating Youth Work Week at Unitas Youth Zone 🎉
This week, Unitas Youth Zone joined in the national celebration of Youth Work Week, highlighting the vital role youth work plays in shaping positive futures for young people. This year’s theme, “A Right to Youth Work for All – Delivering Positive Futures for Young People,” resonates deeply with our mission to provide inclusive, inspiring, and […]
Unitas Youth Zone: A Vital Resource for Young People Amidst Generation Isolation
Today marks the launch of the Generation Isolation report by OnSide Youth Zones, which underscores the urgent need for real-life alternatives to smartphone dependency among London’s youth. This report highlights that a staggering 21% of young people aged 11 to 18 in London spend most of their free time glued to their smartphones. Here at […]
July – September 2024 Quarterly Update
Welcome to our latest quarterly update, which looks at an incredibly jam-packed July, August and September! In this edition, we feature: The amazing activities and excursions enjoyed by our young members An update on our exciting mentoring partnership with Sony Music Entertainment Our pride at earning the prestigious Bronze Quality Mark Sone insightful messages from […]
Unitas Awarded Bronze Quality Mark
Unitas Youth Zone is very proud to share that we have recently been awarded the Bronze Quality Mark by London Youth. This rigorous, external assessment is a validation of the excellent quality of what we do at Unitas. The focus of the Bronze level award is on the “structure” of us as a youth organisation – our […]
April-June 2024 Quarterly Update
Our latest Quarterly Update is here, covering April, May and June 2024. Inside you’ll find: A celebration of our very special Fifth Birthday, marking five years since we opened A report about our basketballers representing Barnet at the London Youth Games A roll of honour of our amazing young people who received Jack Petchey Achievement […]
Unitas Celebrates in Style
On a bright sunny day, more than 1,000 members of our local community came to Unitas Youth Zone to celebrate our fifth birthday on Sunday 23 June. Echoing our opening day in 2019, the community open day was circus-themed and every space was filled with fun, engaging activities for all ages. The free event attracted […]
Unitas Turns Five – Come and Celebrate!
On 23 June 2019, Unitas opened its doors and changed the lives of young people in the local area forever. Five years (and 160,000 visits by 12,000 young people) later, on Sunday 23 June 2024, we are inviting the entire community to join us once again to celebrate our birthday! The whole centre will be […]
January-March 2024 Quarterly Update
Our latest Quarterly Update is here! It’s packed with everything that’s been going on at Unitas for the first three months of 2024. Inside you’ll find: A full report about our first-ever Impact Dinner, ‘Uniquely Unitas’, which raised an amazing £230,000 for our 2023/2024 fundraising campaign A tribute to outgoing Chairman Keith Black and a […]
Volunteer of the Year
The award for Volunteer of the year goes to Yesim Kul for her phenomenal support in the training kitchen alongside Sanaz. Yesim is in every aspect, fantastic with our young people. She consistently brings her positive energy on session and is always ready to lend a helping hand, to ensure that the young people are […]
Unitas Youth Zone raises over £225,000 after hosting our first-ever Impact Dinner
On Thursday 8 February, Unitas Youth Zone hosted our first-ever fundraising dinner for 155 guests, raising over £225,000 and celebrating the achievements of our youth workers and young people. Titled ‘Uniquely Unitas’, it was an evening none of the guests will ever forget. Guests enjoyed canapes and a glass of wine in our Rec area […]
