A lovely chat with Victoria Suchak - Manager and founder

https://www.thepavilioncommunitycafe.co.uk

I have been running the Zone Youth Club for over 20 years, first at St Andrew’s Church in Reading Street, then at The Gap, Queens Road Baptist Church, and for the past 9 years at The Pavilion Café in St Peter’s Recreation Ground. I am a qualified Senior Youth Worker, overseeing all the weekly club sessions we run at the café.

The Zone Youth Club first started one cold, snowy night in February 2005 at St Andrew’s Church Hall in Reading Street. 120 children and their parents lined up to join. It was overwhelming, but we enlisted help from friends and family, and the club was born. We had a long waiting list, start ...