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Youth clubs contracts

UK public sector · 58 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
58
Last 12 months
Median contract
£96k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£18.1m
58 of 58 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
42
Suppliers
65

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most youth clubs contracts took 12% of them (7 of 58).
  • The median contract, £96k, is 66% below the median across social care contracts (£281k).
  • London had the most contracts: 13, or 22% of the total.

Who buys youth clubs

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Worcestershire County Council4 contracts
  2. 2London Borough of Tower Hamlets3 contracts
  3. 3NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board3 contracts
  4. 4Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council3 contracts
  5. 5Wolverhampton City Council2 contracts
  6. 6NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board2 contracts
  7. 7Northumbria Police2 contracts
  8. 8University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  9. 9NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board2 contracts
  10. 10London Borough of Croydon2 contracts

Top youth clubs contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1No Limits2 contracts
  2. 2Barnardo's2 contracts
  3. 3St Giles Trust2 contracts
  4. 4Mancroft Advice Project (MAP)1 contract
  5. 5Young Devon1 contract
  6. 6Osmani Trust1 contract
  7. 7SocietyLinks Tower Hamlets1 contract
  8. 8Covent Garden Dragon Hall Trust1 contract
  9. 9Sporting Foundation1 contract
  10. 10Poplar HARCA1 contract

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

8Q4 2025*18Q1 202612Q2 202620Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 53 · Wales 4 · Scotland 1

London13South West9West Midlands8North East7Yorkshire and The Humber6North West5Wales4East Midlands2East of England2South East1Scotland1

What is included

Youth work with young people: centre-based youth clubs and specialist sessions, detached and street-based outreach youth work in hotspots, targeted one-to-one and group support, mentoring, peer education and non-clinical emotional wellbeing support for young people who are at risk or struggling, and youth social action and personal development programmes such as National Citizen Service.

  • Youth clubs and centres
  • Specialist LGBTQ+ youth provision
  • Centre-based SEND youth provision
  • Detached youth work
  • Street outreach with young people
  • Mentoring for vulnerable young people
  • Peer mentoring and peer education
  • Non-clinical children and young people's mental health and wellbeing support
  • Mentoring network development
  • National Citizen Service and youth social action programme delivery, including residential experiences

What is not included

  • Youth offending and violence reduction interventions (soc.family.youth-justice-interventions)
  • Child exploitation and missing children services (soc.abuse.child-exploitation-and-missing-children)
  • Short breaks for disabled children (soc.carer.community-activity-short-breaks-disabled-children)
  • Holiday activities and food (soc.family.holiday-activities-and-food)
  • Staffed adventure playgrounds and open-access play (soc.family.staffed-play-and-adventure-playgrounds)
  • Rough sleeping outreach (soc.house.rough-sleeping-outreach)
  • Digital mental health platforms (it.lob.digital-mental-health-platform)
  • Evaluation of youth programmes (csl.research.programme-evaluation)
  • CAMHS and counselling as clinical treatment (another industry: healthcare)
  • Careers and NEET programmes (another industry: education-training)

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