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Compassionate Service
Written By: Luke Osteen | Issue: April 2024
With 10 years under its belt, the Boys & Girls Club of the Plateau is charting an ambitious course for its future – for its children.
With the Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau celebrating a decade of compassionate service, it’s cast its gaze back, just for an instance, before looking ahead at a busy year and a busy decade.
“This year marks our 10th anniversary, and the club has grown by leaps and bounds. We started with about 100 kids, and now are over 450 and growing,” says Merrel Hattink, who serves on the BGC Board. “This year we will open an additional Club in Highlands and are beginning to build a teen Club building at the Cashiers site.”
1. To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. This is achieved by providing aworld-class Club experience that ensures success is within reach of every young person who walks through our doors.
2. BGCP provides a safe supportive environment filled with caring adults who love working with the youth of our community. Programs are filled with fun activities that support academic success, healthy lifestyles, emotional wellbeing, character, and citizenship.
3. Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau is excited to be celebrating its 10th year of operation. Founded at the Community center in cashiers 10 years ago the Club operated in two rooms and served 150 members.
4. In 2022 it opened its new facility at 558 Frank Allen Road where membership has increased to over 450 members in 2023.
5. BGCP will be opening its second location in Highlands, NC this Spring and Club devoted to teen members will open on the Cashiers campus in 2025.
6. Summer Camp will operate at both the Cashiers and Highlands locations and registration is currently open. For more information, visit the Club website at bgcplateau.org.
“We are thrilled and amazed at the success and growth not only of the Club in the last 10 years, but that of the young people we serve,” says Carmen Waite, the chairwoman of the Childcare Coalition of Highlands. “I’ve really had a chance to understand the needs here in Highlands and we are looking forward to being part of the community as we open this second location.”
