We checked 137 Norwich clubs for teenagers. 58 say nothing about juniors online.
So our research agents read each club’s own website, league table or council record. 67 clubs clearly take 11–16s, and 31 of them are confirmed with ages and activity in 2025–26. Alongside them sit 66 free courts, skateparks and tracks young people can just turn up to.
A demonstration built by Nautoguide from public information, checked 22 October 2026.
From every club in the city to the ones that take teenagers
Each step is a check, not an estimate.
DCMS should commit to creating a bespoke, child-friendly online directory of youth services including sport facilities and clubs, broken down by local authority … a list or map showing the local sport and physical activity clubs and sessions available to them.
Where the youth offer is solid, and where it isn’t
Clubs that take 11–16s, by activity. Solid bars are confirmed with an age range and activity dated 2025 or 2026; striped bars are listed but still need a call.
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free places to just turn up and play
Courts, skateparks, tracks and outdoor gyms from OpenStreetMap, with 191 playgrounds for younger children on top. Public access is taken from the map data and has not been visited.
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What you could give residents
The same data as a working finder that young people and parents can use. Search it, filter it, or pick a dot on the map. Every club links to the page its evidence came from.
How it was checked
This reuses our Norwich club register proof of concept and adds one pass: a check of every club for junior provision. Nobody is sent to a session that has stopped.
What the labels mean
10 clubs were confirmed adults-only and left off the map.
Sources
- HMRC CASC list, Charity Commission and Companies House registers (Open Government Licence)
- OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps open data for courts, skateparks, tracks, playgrounds and venues
- Clubs’ own websites, club pages, league tables and Norwich City Council directory records, read by our research agents
The same youth offer, for your area
- Every club, class and session for 11–16s in your area, found, checked for junior provision and dated
- Free self-directed spaces: courts, skateparks, BMX tracks, outdoor gyms and parks
- Data you own and can publish openly, ready to feed the directory or finder you already use, OpenActive, or a Locaria finder of your own
- A regular refresh, so closed clubs drop off and new ones appear
It answers the CSJ’s call for a local directory of clubs and spaces for young people, and gives councils mapping their youth offer under DCMS’s Local Youth Transformation guidance a start that includes grassroots clubs as well as registered organisations.
Nautoguide, Brixham (Devon). Active Partners Trust runs Locaria in Derbyshire, Cardiff Met Sport and West Wales Sports Partnership are rolling it out in South Wales, and we have done data work for Active Partnerships in London, Yorkshire, Manchester and Lincolnshire.