After nearly a year of building work we are almost ready to relaunch activities at the OId Auction Ring. As well as our new-look building we have recruited some new staff to join Sharon and the team.
The building work should be complete in the next couple of weeks and new staff will be starting work shortly to get trained up and be ready to help us move into the building. We hope to be able to restart activities before the end of January.
Initially we will be running a similar programme to before the refurbishment to give everyone time to settle in. This will include lunchtime drop-in sessions with a range of snacks on offer, Friday afternoon activities, and after-school sessions from Monday – Thursday. The pool table will be coming back along with a new table football set up, and the VR and computer gaming equipment.
Funding permitting, we aim to ramp this up to include a range of evening sessions including offering an early evening meal, and then look at including weekend and holiday activities as well as continuing to run step-up sessions for young people moving up from P7 to High School. We are also considering running “on the road” events in the villages around Biggar and looking at how we can support young people moving from school into work.
If you have any ideas for activities that you would like to see at BYP, please use our Contact Form to let us know, send us a message via Facebook, Instagram or Tiktok or email admin@biggaryouthproject.org.uk.
We know it’s been a long haul to get this stage, and would like to thank all of the young people, our staff, supporters and the community in Biggar for their patience and support. We hope hope you’re as excited about our relaunch as we are and that once we are finally open again it will have been worth the wait!
