Help!!! Advice needed about a teenagers party!

[Rach1983]

Hi everyone!

Just wondering if anyone can help me. I am trying to organise a 15th birthday party for my cousin but don't have a clue where to find a venue. I've heard that many places don't allow teenage birthday parties because they are too much trouble but surely there must be somewhere?!? It needs to be somewhere near here or honor oak/brockley/forest hill etc area.

If anyone has any ideas or knows of anywhere that would be great!!!

Rachel

[dbboy]

haver you tried contacting church halls?

[ontheedge]

The Honor Oak pub apparently room downstairs happy to have parties at a fee

[Pugwash]

What ever you do, don't allow the kids to advertise it on Facebook etc. A samll private teenage party at a local venue ended up having Noise Enforcement and Police attending as the youngsters had spoken about it on facebook, and it went from about 40 kids to nearly 200 turning up. The parents organising the party were forced to abort the

event half way through, and lost their deposit for the hall and were asked to pay for the damages incurred to the premises by angry teenagers who were forced to leave. I think this is why so many venues are apprehensive.

many hiring agreements state that events for under 18s need to be supervised by appropriate number of adults over

a certain age.

Pubs may not hire out their halls/rooms as they would not get any money from sale of drinks. Some schools will hire out their halls.

[mrs scoop]

I agree with pugwash

[ianr]

Thirded. The event at DHFC that led to a shooting and a fatal stabbing also started out as a private 18th birthday party. Someone then advertised it, including on Facebook, and it was said to to have turned into a pay party. I don't like being a Jeremiah or alarmist, and things can presumably go without any trouble at all, but better aware than not.

[Otta]

Southwark Sports & Social Club, Dulwich Common. No neighbours to annoy, nice club house, and relatively cheap. Plus cheap bar for the adults in attendance, so you can set a really bad example.

[RosieH]

What Otta said.

At that age, we always had parties at tennis and cricket clubs, probably for the reasons cited above. Oh, and the community centre - I don't really know what one of those is, but they were always happy to have us?

[ed_pete]

You could try the Constitutional Club on East Dulwich Grove. I beleive they have function rooms for hire.

[malumbu]

What is your budget?

Sports clubs eg oncs off of Dulwich Common will be fine, but will not be cheap.

Otherwise backroom or upstairs in a pub would probably be cheaper. There must be enough adults to act as door staff/bouncers.

That was the condition when we were all having our 18ths.

[Otta]

Sports clubs eg oncs off of Dulwich Common will be fine, but will not be cheap.

Depends what you mean by cheap. I'd say the Southward Sports club is pretty cheap for venue hire.

[malumbu]

About ?700 for the Dulwich College place - used to be the Trevor Baylis Sports Centre, and more for their pavillion.

Dunno how that compares with the other suggetion.

But we are talking wedding reception territory in the above.

A really cheap place is the Aquarius Golf Club in Peckham/nunhead. You will have to use their catering though.

Or ?ks (that's thousands for a blow out at the conservatory at Horniman Park. Wasn't their a telly programme once about rich kids whose parents would spend 10s of thousands on their little treasures

[Rach1983]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys!! Unfortunately Southwark sports club won't let the hall for teenage parties, this seems to be the main problem, there are a lot of halls but can't seem to find one that will allow teenagers!!! :(

[womanofdulwich]

MMm I wonder why??

[Guest]

St Barnabas Hall in the village maybe? Quieter area and less likely to attract gatecrashers.

[jumpinjackflash]

malumbu Wrote:

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> There must be enough adults

> to act as door staff/bouncers.

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> That was the condition when we were all having our

> 18ths.

I couldn't agree with you more Malumbu...I used to help out my friend who ran a bar doing private functions. I loathed doing the under 18 nights as there was almost, always trouble....and this was sans alcohol! In fact I don't recall a night when there wasn't any trouble. We were always assured by the parents, prior to the booking, that there would be sufficient number of adults to act as doormen but there never was - and when it came to it they were powerless to do anything...I personally think you're better off with a couple of actual beefcake bouncers! However, having said that Rach1983, hopefully your teenagers know how to conduct themselves better than the sods I had to deal with!

[RosieH]

How many's the invite list? Are there any under 18 nights that he could just say he'd be celebrating his birthday at? We did that for a few - that way the club has responsibility for bouncing and the like, and it's all done and dusted by 10.30 (when they sneak off to the park with a 2l bottle of Woodpecker)