Maidenhead & Windsor

It’s preview time at 4 Marlow Road – the new home for the youth and community centre in Maidenhead.

The first occupants of the new Maidenhead centre will be No 22 youth counselling service, followed by Relate and the Citizens Advice Bureau, and later this summer the youth club transfers from Castle Hill to the new centre.

One of the borough’s most ambitious community projects, the premises – comprising the existing, refurbished Grade II listed building and the new linked extension – will provide an up-to-the-minute centre with meeting rooms, two dance studios, internet café, games hall and youth club facilities.

On Thursday June 12 there will be an open house where councillors, the media, staff and Castle Hill customers can view improvements to the existing Grade II listed building. At 1.45pm, Cllr Jesse Grey, lead member for leisure and culture, will cut a specially created cake in the shape of the building to celebrate the successful completion of this first phase.

Cllr Grey said: “A lot of hard work and preparation has gone into bringing us to this point and it is exciting to see it all steadily come to fruition – fantastic new premises for all the Maidenhead community.”

Cllr Eileen Quick, lead member for children’s services, said: “This is a really exciting and ambitious project that will benefit so many Maidenhead residents, especially young people. We consulted with youth club members on the facilities, so we know we are providing what they want.”

The council worked for many years to find a replacement for the popular but rundown Castle Hill Youth and Community Centre in High Town Road to provide town centre services for young people and the wider community, and the project was funded from the proceeds of the sale of the Castle Hill site.

The attractive Grade II listed building previously housed social services and was originally the local technical college.

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