We first sent volunteers to Donnybrook Youth Club last year and it has quickly become one of our most successful activities. It runs in St. Mary's Donnybrook on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 6pm to 8pm for 6-10 year olds. There are arts and crafts, football, uni-hoc, pool, air hockey and table tennis tables, as well as football, volleyball, singing and dancing. We are adding a homework club this year to encourage more teenagers to use the facilities.

The club on a Wednesday night caters for 35 energetic kids, running up and down stairs, in and out from hall to kitchen, chatting and laughing the entire time.

Thursday is more hectic again, as from 6pm to 8pm the club caters for both the younger and older groups. However, when the younger one leave, the night becomes a more chilled affair with some football or hockey scores to settle, pool and table tennis competitions and even some baking!!! This night is a good chance to hang out and have a chat with the teenagers. However the competition of the volleyball matches between the teens and leaders is stuff of legend and is usually hilarious.

The club gives valuable life experience to all volunteers and a great feeling for giving your time to children that really appreciate it. As for the volunteers it's a great way for meeting new people and there is a great social aspect to the group outside of the club.

	Wednesday	Thursday
	6:30 - 8:30pm	7 - 9pm
	6 - 10 Yr Olds	6 - 10 Yr Olds

Take the 46A, the 145, the 746 from UCD to the ‘Donnybrook Youth Club Bus Stop’ which is after the Fire Station, Eddie Rockets, and Madigans Pub but before Donnybrook Fair. Follow the Google Maps directions as you double back and turn right, around Madigans, down Belmount Avenue. It's beside a primary school, on the left hand side of the road, just past a housing estate.  Don’t forget to change the setting on Google Maps from car to walking. You may have to zoom and click on ‘Map’ to make the map render correctly.

The are also Google Earth Placemarks available to help you find your way.