The London Jewish Cultural Centre has unveiled detailed plans for a £750,000 youth centre on its Ivy House, Golders Green, site which the LJCC believes will attract teenagers from across the capital.
LJCC general manager Alan Fell said this week: “We are suffering from a shortage of facilities for young Jewish people and there has been no new Jewish youth facility in the borough for a very long time.”
Following a successful planning appeal, building work will start in the autumn and should be completed early in 2010.
Mr Fell said the centre would offer “a mixture of educational, recreational and leisure activities. There will also be performing arts including film-making and drama workshops and, potentially, interfaith work”. It would be promoted through sites such as Facebook, Bebo and MySpace.