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March 24, 2025
February 8, 2025
Founded in 1903, we are known locally as the Shewsy. The area we serve is one of the most deprived wards in the UK. Our core business is working with children and young people. The centre maintains a Christian ethos, whilst respecting other beliefs and cultures, and valuing diversity. Our motto is ‘People Matter More Than Things’ and this guides our approach to our work.
Through informal education, we aim to meet the social, recreational, emotional and spiritual needs of our young people. We do this through the relationships and self-confidence we build and the activity and learning programme we offer. Our vision is to draw out the talent and potential of all our young people so that each one will discover a positive purpose and direction for their life.
We are an open-access, full-time centre and run a full programme of activities each week of the year.
The Shewsy has always been widely recognised as centre of excellence. This has been achieved by the quality and dedication of its staff and by the support of many individuals in Merseyside and beyond, especially Shrewsbury School.
The Shewsy is governed by a formal constitution, with the Head of School chairing a 13-member Board. Trustees are equally appointed by the Church, School, and local community, overseeing strategy, finance, safeguarding, and charitable aims.
To be the North West’s leading youth provision, guiding the young people of the Shewsy to grow, achieve and become they best they can be.
We create a safe, welcoming space where young people and our community can grow in confidence, skills and spirituality and ambition- making Everton a place of opportunity.
Shrewsbury House was founded by masters from Shrewsbury School in 1903. Its history is inextricably linked with that of the surrounding area and Everton has undergone huge changes over the years. From being farmland and heath 200 years ago, it developed rapidly in the 1800s to become dominated by impressive mansions. It then became one of the most densely populated working class areas in Britain from the late 1800s into the 1960s. Large scale slum clearances and building of high rise blocks in the 1960s dramatically changed its skyline. Demolition of these high rise blocks and the beginning of the construction of Everton Park in the late 1980s radically altered the area yet again.
So far this year we have...
provided 2500 hot meals to Junior Club members
taken 60+ young people on residentials
welcomed 499 senior members through our doors
welcomed 206 junior members through our doors
welcomed 492 newcomers
held 4 annual community events
worked 1 to 1 with 50+ young people and their families
engaged with 25+ other agencies*
*including police, businesses, schools, charities, churches, GPs and youth sector agencies.
We hope to build the ‘Friends’ network from various sectors and bodies, principally within Merseyside – including industry and business, the legal profession, education, academia world, the arts, sport and the media.
As always there is a place for our old club members who have made their way in the world and are able now to give back to the club.
We now have 55 people registered as ‘Friends of Shrewsbury House’. Many of us contribute to the upkeep of the club by a regular standing order, but we are not strictly a fund raising organisation. We want supporters of all kinds.
Shrewsbury House was founded in 1903 by masters from Shrewsbury School, and over 100 years later links between the Club and the School remain strong.
The Headmaster and three members of staff sit on The Shewsy’s Board of Trustees.
The Shewsy continues to play a central role in the life of the School’s Sixth Form. Every year, four groups of students from the Lower Sixth spend a couple of days in the club, working with the young people and learning about life in the inner city, social care, crime and justice and Liverpool’s great maritime tradition. The students leave changed, having worked and learned hard and had a wonderful, broadening time. These trips are very popular.
We still have a strong relationship with the Shrewsbury School. Every pupil in Year 9 visits the Shewsy for an afternoon of activity and meeting the junior aged children. During lower 6th the pupils visit and stay overnight at the Shewsy interacting with both juniors and seniors and seeing all that Liverpool as a city has to offer. This year the Law trip attended the Crown Court and had a Q&A with four judges, the Medical trip met a local GP who has been practicing the area for over 30 years and toured Liverpool University Medical School.
