Finchley Youth Activity Centre
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Barnet Child and Family Early Help Service offer a friendly, supportive environment for all young people in Barnet who want to explore the creative arts regardless of experience. We also offer a variety of other activities which occur regularly from this centre which you can enquire about.
Activities available
A range of term time and holiday activities take place in Finchley Youth Activity Centre. They are for young people aged 4 to 19 (and up to 25 with Disabilities and/or Autism.) These activities include:
- dance
- drama
- musical theatre
- circus skills
- art
All our Positive Activities are free (fully funded) for children and young people that live or are educated in Barnet.
To find out more about all the activities we offer at Finchley Youth Activity Centre and our other building Canada Villa Young People’s Centre, all year round
We offer activities all year at Finchley Youth Activity Centre and Canada Villa Young People's Centre. To find out more visit our Barnet Youth website
If your young person needs one to one support
Unfortunately we (Child and Family Early Help Programmes Team) aren’t able to provide one to one or additional support for a young person to access any of our activities, courses or programmes.
Your one to one support worker would need to be provided by you as a parent/carer or any professionals (Social Worker/ 0-19 Practitioner etc) involved with your young person.
The worker providing one to one support would need to be DBS checked and meets all the requirements to support a young person with SEND (Special Educational Needs or Disabilities and or Autism.)
The worker can be arranged by contact Short Breaks Team or Disabled Children’s Team and using your Short Break allocation.
Contact these teams:
Disability service and specialist Autism team
How to join an activity
For a young person to access any of our positive activities and the need to have a registered account on our website. An account needs to be created by a parent/carer or if the young person is over 18 they can create their own account on our website.
Create or to sign in to your account
We understand that circumstances can change very quickly and sometimes a young person can no longer attend an activity for a number of reasons. Please make sure if an activity or session that needs to be cancelled it is updated on your dashboard/profile and the cancellation is in advance.
How to get here
142 High Road, East Finchley, London N2 9ED
We are directly on the High Street, East Finchley.
The nearest tube station is East Finchley.
Centre facilities
The facilities within the Centre which we currently have available for hire or used within groups are:
- A 68-seat theatre with lighting rig, sound equipment, projector and screen, with additional aerial circus equipment already fitted
- A fully equipped dance studio
- Smaller rooms to use (suitable space for meetings)
- Free internet access for young people
- Film editing and photography equipment.
Building hire
Should you be interested in hiring out a space at Finchley Youth Activity Centre, please contact us.
You will need to tell us what you want to hire the building for, and any additional information on equipment or facilities there you want to hire.
Contact us
Finchley Young People’s Activity Centre
142 High Road, East Finchley, London N2 9ED
Telephone: 020 8359 3100