Bar ‘n’ Bus is a Christian charity working with young people throughout Essex.
We deliver professional, community-based youth work with young people aged 10-19 – increasing opportunity and seeking to meet their social, emotional, educational and spiritual needs.
Work includes:
- Mobile Unit Outreach – drop-in community-based sessions using our bespoke Mobile Youth Vehicle
- Detached Youth Work – on the street, engaging young people in the places they choose to gather
- Group Work Programmes – e.g. healthy relationships work, wellbeing programmes, skills development
- In-School Support– providing targeted programmes and 1-2-1 to enhance young people’s school engagement
We work in partnership with local churches, schools, councils and groups to provide professional, community-based youth work, seeking transformation and fullness of life for young people. We employ professional youth workers as well as recruiting, training and supporting teams of volunteers to offer a diverse youth work provision.
Our heart is to provide programmes for young people in the location of their choosing, rather than bringing them to our own venues. A large amount of our work takes place ‘on the street’ with detached youth workers engaging young people in parks, high streets and playgrounds, as well as utilising mobile youth vehicles for outreach sessions. Projects and programmes are developed with young people at the centre and start from our connections with young people in the local community.
