About Our Club
Our local Club is a member of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the country’s largest youth development organization and the fastest growing youth agency in the world. The clubs are unique for the following four reasons:
A Focus on Kids and Kids Alone in a Dedicated Youth Facility—Our kids learn and play in a facility that is theirs alone and without competition from programs for adul
ts or other groups. Tested Programs—Our local Club is supported by the national BGCA, which provides us with tested kid-centered programs and the staff training to make them work. Graduates of these programs show a higher rate of high school completion and college attendance than their peers. Professional Staff—Our staff, many of whom are students attending our local teacher college programs, take part in year-round training and professional development in five core kid-development areas: Social Recreation, Sports & Fitness, the Arts, Personal & Educational Development, and Health & Life Skills. Open Daily—The Club is open daily on a drop-in basis during the critical after-school hours from 2-6 p.m., and for Teens from 2-7:00 p.m. In addition, the Club is often open during school vacations and the weekend for extended hours. 5) Affordable to All Youth—This is made possible through the generous support of hundreds of local corporations and philanthropic individuals who recognize that many of today’s youth are left to find their own recreation and companionship in the streets or are home with no adult care or guidance.,
A Unique Club House
Since 2001, the Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster has worked in youth development with young people ages 8-18, from many economic, social and family circumstances. In August 2008, the organization consolidated its Fitchburg and Leominster clubhouses to a location just off Route 2 on the Fitchburg-Leominster line. It is situated in a former private school on conservation land in a residential setting—a unique site for a Boys & Girls Club clubhouse, with numerous classrooms, meeting places, a full gymnasium, a Teen Center, and plenty of outdoor play and study areas on 8 acres of land, and surrounded by another 160-plus-acre Doyle Conservation Center (DCC) operated by The Trustees of the Reservations.
