Into the New Year with Anne Youth Centre!

December 16, 2024

The last month of the year is a time for summing up. We too are summarizing our youth center's year of work.

The most important thing to say, and what always inspires us greatly, is that our youth centre is always full of life. We welcome both children who have been familiar with us for a long time and new ones who hear about us through friends, social media, or workshops organized in our schools.

We are pleased to see young people actively participating in our center's activities, developing projects, taking initiative, and sharing their ideas. We want to tell our youth: an idea is already half the success; we will help you implement the rest together.

We have excellent opportunities to realize your ideas: smaller projects can be implemented within the framework of daily activities, but if a project is larger and requires more serious preparation, we will implement it together, for example, as NOA projects, which are funded by the City of Tartu.

Our podcast studio, or podcasting room, is also open to active young people: tell us who you'd like to invite as guests or what topics you'd like to discuss – we'll gladly help you organize it all.

If you share your ideas with us, we will understand what direction you want to move in, and we will move with you. We are open to themed parties, workshops, and new guests.

This year, we renovated the youth center, updating both the youth room and the sports hall. The youth room has become more comfortable and spacious. Our sports hall is always ready to help you exercise, train, or relax.

If you are interested in trying out some exciting training sessions, come and talk to a youth worker about it, and we will figure out how to make it happen. Perhaps you are willing to share your own experience and lead a training session? Believe us, there will be many participants!

We hope the new year brings us many new encounters, experiences, trips, and many exciting projects and memorable events!

Dream and come realize your dreams with us!

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