Our Team

Victoria Suchak - Manager

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.

I am also an Arts Award Advisor to Gold Level, assisting our youth workers in delivering this nationally-recognised award, and I’m also Co-ordinator and Centre Leader for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. We train young people to Bronze, Silver and Gold levels, taking them out on expedition and supporting them in their D of E journey. I am also a Physical and Mental Health First Aider, and a Sexual Health advisor for young people.

Since we renovated and opened the café, I have also become more involved in community work, and now run our parent and toddler group MiniZone, our community cafe morning, our Pavilion Football Club (refreshments, not actually playing!) and plan all our school holiday activities for children aged 7-16. I also look after an allotment nearby, and aim to get young people as well as older customers involved in helping maintain it, and try to provide fresh fruit and veg to use at the café.

I am responsible for the day to day running of the café, all administrative processes, reporting to our funders and other Trustees, fundraising, recruitment and training of staff, and maintaining the quality and service of our provision. All our team are trained in Emergency First Aid, Safeguarding Young People, have Enhanced DBS clearance, and receive continued professional development when appropriate. Our main priority is the health and wellbeing of the young people who attend our youth café.

We have Lizzy who is our newest youth worker - she has quickly settled into our routine and is getting to know our club members well - she will be working alongside Victoria over the coming months taking on more responsibilities. Lizzy is a kind, calm, supportive person, ready to join in whenever and wherever needed!

We have Ellis who is our newest Sports youth worker - he has been working alongside Marcus and Harry over the summer getting to know everyone, and is ready to head up the games and sports delivery during our term-time sessions from the autumn.

We have Marcus who delivers our sports and games activities - he joins us during school holidays to supervise football, rounders, dodgeball, cricket……Marcus also used to come to our club when he was much younger, and now he’s back in a team role!

We have Harry who runs our very popular Saturday morning Pavilion Football Club, for which we are hugely grateful. Harry left us for full time employment, but just couldn’t stay away…….and we’re really grateful!

Also, during our summer holidays we increase our team to be able to cope with the increased demand!