How to use Find Your Club

• The map shows youth clubs. Each club has its own marker.
• Tap a marker to see the club's name, address and activities. Tap View More to open its page. Tap another marker to switch clubs, or tap the map to close the card.
• Use the + and − buttons in the bottom-right corner to zoom in and out, or pinch the map.
• Tap the round target button below them to show your location. Your phone will ask first. Your location stays on your phone: we never see it. If it doesn't work, a message beside the button says why. Check location is turned on for your browser and try again, or type your postcode into Search instead.
• Prefer a list? Tap List at the top of the screen.

Type a club's name, part of its address, or a London postcode into Search, then pick a club to go to it. For a postcode, type the whole thing or just the start, like “N7 8”, then pick the area: the map moves there, and the list puts the nearest clubs first. On the list, the clubs also narrow down as you type. Tap the × at the end of the box to clear it. The postcode never leaves your phone or computer.

Using a keyboard? Press the down arrow to move through the suggestions, and Enter to pick one. Escape closes the list.

Tap Filter to choose:

• Activities, like Music, Gaming or Drop-in. Pick more than one to see clubs that do any of them. Tap Show all activities to see the full list.
• Wheelchair: step-free or partial access.
• Ages: pick the age group you're in.
• Distance: how far away, in miles. This uses your location, or the postcode you picked in Search. If your phone asks to share your location and you don't answer, the filter stops waiting after a while: pick a distance again to try again.

Your filters are kept while you look at clubs, until you close the tab. The search box starts empty each time.

Can't find a club you know about? Some clubs haven't added every detail yet, so a filter can hide them. Try turning the filters off.

Each club writes its own page, so they look a bit different. A page can have: About, Programme, Accessibility, Getting here, Team, Tour, FAQs and Contact. Use the list of sections at the top to jump around.

• Getting here tells you what to look for when you arrive. It may show the front door and the nearest bus stops or stations. Get directions opens a maps app.
• Team shows some of the people you might meet.
• Share, at the top, lets you send the page to someone.

A 360° photo is a picture you can look all the way around, like standing in the room and turning your head. Tap Start 360° tour, or tap one of the rooms.

• Look around: drag with your finger or mouse. To zoom, pinch, scroll, or use the + and − buttons.
• Go to another room: tap a green circle with footprints in it, or tap a room name in the strip at the bottom.
• Some markers have a short note next to them, like where a door leads.
• Tap the Info button (an “i” in a circle) at the top to see the room's noise level and the club's accessibility details.
• Using a keyboard? Press Tab to reach the photo, then use the arrow keys (or W, A, S and D) to look around, and + or − to zoom. Tab also reaches the footprint markers: press Enter to go through.

The tour uses big photos, so it works best on Wi-Fi. If a photo doesn't load, tap Try again. Some phones and browsers can't show 360° photos at all.

Each room in a tour has a noise level:

• Quiet: a calm, low-noise space.
• Moderate: some chat and activity.
• Loud: an active, energetic space.

A quiet space is a room the club says you can go to for a break. It has its own badge in the tour.

The club chooses these labels, and noise can change from day to day. The Accessibility section on the club's page may say more. If it matters to you, ask the club when it's usually quietest.

Tap the Aa button at the top of any page to open Reading settings. You can change:

• Theme: light, dark, or the same as your phone.
• Contrast: turn on high contrast if colours look too similar to read easily.
• Font: Lexend (the normal one), Atkinson Hyperlegible, or OpenDyslexic. Different fonts suit different people, so try each one.
• Text size and text weight, to make words bigger or darker.
• Spacing: more space between letters and words, or between lines.

Your choices are saved on your phone or computer, so they're there next time. Tap Reset contrast, font, size and spacing to go back to normal.

That's normal. Lots of people feel nervous the first time they go somewhere new. Some things that can help:

• Look at the tour and the team a few times, so the place and the people feel familiar.
• Read Getting here, so you know what the front door looks like and where to go.
• Check the club's FAQs. They may answer things like whether you need to book.
• Get in touch with the club first, using the Contact section on its page. You can ask anything: when it's quietest, who will meet you, or whether you can bring someone with you.
• Ask a parent, carer, friend or worker to look at the club with you, or to help you contact it.
• If the club has a quiet space, remember where it is so you can take a break.

If something's worrying you, you don't have to deal with it on your own. These services are free and private. They aren't run by Find Your Club or the clubs on it.

If you or someone else is in danger right now, call 999, or go to A&E.

• Childline

  For anyone under 19, about anything. Free, 24 hours a day, and it won't show on your phone bill.

  Call 0800 1111, or chat online.

• Shout

  Free, confidential text support, 24 hours a day.

  Text SHOUT to 85258.

• Samaritans

  Someone to listen, about anything. Free, day or night.

  Call 116 123.

• Kooth

  Free, anonymous online support for young people aged 10 to 25 in London: chat to a counsellor, read articles, or join the community.

  Sign up on the website. No waiting list, and you don't need to see a doctor first.

• Switchboard

  For LGBTQIA+ people, run by LGBTQIA+ people. Free and confidential, 10am to 10pm every day.

  Call 0800 0119 100, or chat online.

• Papyrus HOPELINE247

  For anyone up to 35 having thoughts of suicide, or worried about someone who is. 24 hours a day.

  Call 0800 068 4141, or text HOPE to 88247.

• NHS 111

  If you need urgent help with your mental health. Free, 24 hours a day, for any age.

  Call 111 and choose the mental health option.

You can also talk to someone you trust, like a youth worker, teacher, parent or carer, or your doctor.

If you support a young person (as a parent, carer, teacher, SENCO, social worker or youth worker), you can use Find Your Club together to plan a first visit.

• Let the young person hold the phone or mouse and set the pace. Looking at a club more than once is normal.
• Start with the Accessibility and Getting here sections, then the tour, then the team. Talk about the noise labels and where they could take a break.
• Write down questions together and send them to the club. Each club's page has its own contact details.
• Clubs write their own pages. Check anything important with the club directly, especially wheelchair access marked as partial.
• To share a club, use Share on its page. While you're in the tour, the web address includes the room, so you can send a link to one room.
• The site doesn't handle bookings or referrals. Contact the club about joining.
• The site needs an internet connection, and there's no print version. The tour uses large photos, so Wi-Fi is best.

The accessibility statement explains keyboard and screen reader support and the problems we know about. The privacy page explains what the site collects, in plain language you can go through with a young person.

Run a youth club and want to be on the map? See the guide for club staff.

Something not working, or something on the site looks wrong? Email youthclub@marys.org.uk, or use Report an issue in the help window (the question-mark button at the top of every page).

For questions about a particular club, like opening times or joining, contact the club directly.