Four rooms, a yard and a step.

The Main Hall is the big ground-floor room: pool, table tennis, a sound system somebody is always arguing over, and the kitchen hatch that serves a hot meal from about seven on Senior Night and Friday Late. The Loft is upstairs and it is the quiet room — no music, better light, and kept deliberately quiet on Wednesdays for young people who find the Main Hall too much. The Weaving Room is the music room. The Yard is where the bikes get stripped and where anyone who wants to be outside goes, under cover along one side. The Office is where the Moving-On Clinic happens on Tuesday afternoons. Access, honestly: there is a step at the Hopwood Lane door and a portable ramp that staff put out on request, the ground floor and the Yard are level throughout, and there is an accessible toilet off the Main Hall. The Loft is up a staircase with no lift, which we know is a real limitation and cannot fix in a Grade II building without money we do not have. Ring ahead on 01422 486 210 and we will make sure the ramp is out and someone is watching the door.

By Friday the Main Hall smells of toast and the pool table has a new dent in it. That is not a complaint — a building that looks untouched on a Saturday morning is a building nobody used. The noticeboard by the door is the most-read thing we own: term dates, the next Earn-a-Bike intake, who is on tonight, and a laminated card with the Designated Safeguarding Lead’s name and direct number on it. The Weaving Room and the Loft are both available to hire when young people are not in them — £22 an hour, £12 for community groups based in Calderdale, and free to any group run by and for young people, which is a rule the trustees wrote in 1974 and nobody has ever tried to change. The Yard has covered space along one side, so the Bike Workshop runs in February as well as June. Everything you can see in the pictures above was paid for by somebody local: the recording desk by a bequest, the drum kit by a pub quiz that ran for four years, and the roof, in 2019, by 340 people giving between £5 and £500.