{"podcast":{"title":"Broadstairs life - its people, its places and its charm","slug":"broadstairs-life-7682120","podcast_index_feed_id":7682120,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/broadstairs-life/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/broadstairs-life","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/broadstairs-life/20260131_070147_6a81c5cda4d4a1147dd1c02d0fd48de8.png","author":"Barry Stickings MBE","episode_count":68,"summary":"Hello and welcome to my Podcast channel Broadstairs Life. I hope you enjoy and will continue to listen to future podcasts featuring the people of Broadstairs as they share the stories of their lives, their work, their loves and history of this historic and welcoming seaside town in Kent. I am just proud that I can help share information and peoples stories of the beautiful and friendly place I live. Broadstairs, a traditional British seaside coastal resort. What Broadstairs Life is About Human Stories : Personal accounts from locals sharing their life journeys, passions, and professional work. Local History : Exploring the heritage and historic significance of Broadstairs as a classic English seaside destination. A Welcoming Guide : Insights and tips that help visitors navigate and appreciate the beauty of the town. Community Connection : A platform that celebrates the \"welcoming\" spirit of the area. We are on all podcasts platforms Facebook Youtube and other social media platforms pls follow and enjoy my new Podcasts every Tuesday and Friday Thank you and enjoy and feel free to contact me if you would like to take part. Contact me to take part broadstairslife@gmail.com RSS Podcas…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-04T10:17:18.770870+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/broadstairs-life-7682120"},"episode":{"title":"Zone Youth Club Pavilion  Broadstairs with Victoria","slug":"zone-youth-club-pavilion-broadstairs-with-victoria","published_at":"2026-08-06T23:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/broadstairs-life-7682120/zone-youth-club-pavilion-broadstairs-with-victoria","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/broadstairs-life-7682120","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/broadstairs-life/2997778","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/370106/2997778/broadstairs-life/2026_07_24_22_23_32_672049d1-22c3-420c-a0db-ca775736ac90.mp3","summary":"A lovely chat with Victoria Suchak - Manager and founder https://www.thepavilioncommunitycafe.co.uk I have been running the Zone Youth Club for over 20 years, first at St Andrew’s Church in Reading Street, then at The Gap, Queens Road Baptist Church, and for the past 9 years at The Pavilion Café in St Peter’s Recreation Ground. I am a qualified Senior Youth Worker, overseeing all the weekly club sessions we run at the café. The Zone Youth Club first started one cold, snowy night in February 2005 at St Andrew’s Church Hall in Reading Street. 120 children and their parents lined up to join. It was overwhelming, but we enlisted help from friends and family, and the club was born. We had a long waiting list, started a second session, did lots of fundraising, bought lots of new equipment, trained staff, ate lots of sweets and burnt a lot of toast, tried hard not to annoy the neighbours too much, organised some really fun trips out, and made lots of new friends. The children that came through our doors became happier, more confident, learned some new skills, gained new friends, and some stayed on to become junior volunteers. We moved to The Gap Community Centre in central Broadstairs in 2015 as we needed more space and to be more accessible. But the seed of an idea was growing……club members and staff had always struggled with not having our own space, to do what we want, when we want, to not be reliant on hiring space, having storage for our ever-increasing equipment and resources. So we took a big leap of faith (and some said madness). In July 2017, we closed the youth club Friday night session for the last time. During that summer, we took on the huge task of renovating the derelict sports pavilion in St Peter’s Recreation Ground. It had been subject to years of vandalism,…","meta_description":"A lovely chat with Victoria Suchak - Manager and founder https://www.thepavilioncommunitycafe.co.uk I have been running the Zone Youth Club for over 20 ye…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2307,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/broadstairs-life-7682120/episodes/zone-youth-club-pavilion-broadstairs-with-victoria/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/broadstairs-life-7682120/zone-youth-club-pavilion-broadstairs-with-victoria.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}