Salford Lads Club

Polling Day with the BBC Philharmonic

The club is used as a polling station during elections and today the city voted for its first elected Mayor .To celebrate the occasion we invited the BBC Philharmonic to perform  in the concert hall as part of their community tour. The nine musicians performed music by Handel, Corelli, Mozart and Rossini.

3rd Pool competition win for SLC

Alex Scott won the under 16 Greater Manchester Pool competition last night to become our 3rd finalist this season. Alex beat Connor Scudder of Droylsden Youth Centre in the final. We now have the under 12, under 14, and under 16 winners at the club, and all of them will go forward to the northern finals in Preston in 2012.

“Tales from Camp”

As part of our Heritage Lottery Funded project to celebrate the 100th Camp we are creating a series of Digital tales by former campers. We are holding 2 open days on the 10th and 11th September to show films of the camps and to collect more stories,so if you were a former camper please come along and record your 2 minute tale. Goldsmiths College, London are working with us to make the digital tales and later workshops will involve linking the audio stories to still photographs and film. ...