Membership
After School Program Hours: Monday – Friday, 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Summer Program Hours: Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Boys and Girls Club Membership
Becoming a member of the Boys & Girls Club is easy! Membership is open to any young person between the ages of 6 and 18 years old and membership dues are only $5.00 per year. (That’s right, per YEAR!) Simply come by the offices of the Boys & Girls Club between the hours of 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Monday-Friday, complete the membership application and pay your dues. It’s that easy!
Memberships are based on the calendar year. Membership renewals/registrations for the upcoming year begin in mid-October and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please stop by the office at the Boys & Girls Club between the hours of 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Monday-Friday to complete the registration process.
Membership Card Policy
Each youth is issued a membership card upon joining and upon renewal. All members are required to bring their cards DAILY for admission to the Club and participation in activities. Requiring members to bring their card every day is our way of helping children learn responsibility. Replacement cost for a lost card is $1.00.
Programs and Services
The Boys & Girls Club provides year-round activities and programs to meet the interests of youth and their educational, physical, emotional, cultural, and social needs. We model our programs and activities on the Boys & Girls Clubs of America core areas:
Education & Career Development
Brain Gain
Career Launch
Club Tech
Diplomas to Degrees
Enterprise Club
Environmental Education
Garden Club
Great Debaters
Junior Staff Training
Math Wizards
Power Hour
Project Hope
Robotics
Spanish Club
STEM
Tech Lab
Fitness & Recreation
Basketball League
Family Fitness
Game Room
Outdoor Field Trips
Soccer League
Swimming
Triple Play
Triple Play Leadership Club
Volleyball League
The Arts
Art Club
Chorus
Dance
Drums
Guitar
Visual Arts
Voice
Health & Life Skills
Money Matters
Net Smartz
Hygiene
Healthy Cooking/Eating
Triple Play Healthy Habits
Character & Leadership Development
Be a Star
Conflict Resolution
Counseling
Date SMART
Gang Prevention
Girl’s Talk
Guy Talk
Junior Welfare Girls Night
Keystone Service & Leadership Club
Kids in Control
K-Kids Service & Leadership Club
Leadership
Passport to Manhood
Positive Peer Helpers
Service Learning
SMART Girls
SMART Leaders
Smart Moves – Skills Mastery & Resistance Training
Street Smarts
Team Building
Torch Service & Leadership Club
Valuing Differences
Volunteering
Youth of the Month
Youth of the Year
Education and Career Development
Power Hour
Power Hour helps Club members ages 6-18 achieve academic success by providing homework help, tutoring and high-yield learning activities and encouraging members to become self-directed learners..
Brain Gain
Brain Gain consists of teme-based activities designed to mitigate summer learning loss.
NetSmartz
NetSmartz teaches Internet safety skills through engaging multimedia activities and offline interaction with Club professionals in three age-appropriate modules: Clicky’s Web World (for ages 6 to 7); NetSmartz Rules (for ages 8 to 12); and I-360 (for ages 13 to 18).
Jr. Staff and Enterprise Training
Training and hiring teens to work at the Club, these programs assist Club members ages 13 to 18 to develop job skills, work ethic and explore career in youth or human services, particularly Boys & Girls Club work.
Career Launch
Exploring careers & prepping for jobs. This program includes the CareerLaunch Web site that allows teens to take an interest survey, explore careers, identify training or college requirements, seek out financial aid and play skills-building games.


Fitness and Recreation
Triple Play
Triple Play, BGCA’s comprehensive health and wellness initiative, strives to improve the overall health of members, ages 6-18, by increasing their daily physical activity, teaching them good nutrition and helping them develop healthy relationships. Program includes daily fitness lessons, gym time and recreation games/tournaments.
Healthy Habits
Designed for ages 6 to 15, this program aims to incorporate healthy living and active learning in every part of the Club experience. The Healthy Habits curricula is designed to teach young people about the benefits of developing healthy habits such as eating smart and being physically active; equip young people with skills to adopt healthier habits by participating in fun and engaging learning activities both at the Club and at home; and encourage young people to take small steps toward positive behavior changes.
Team Sports
Basketball, soccer & volleyball.
Social Recreation and Game Room activities.
Field Trips
Recreational and educational trips throughout the region.
Swimming
Learning water safety and gaining swimming competence.
The Arts
Visual Arts
Featured mediums include drawing, painting, sculpture, crafts, computer graphics and cultural projects.
Performance Arts
Members can enjoy a wide range of performance vehicles including chorus, drama, guitar, drumming and dance.
Health and Life Skills
SMART Moves
The SMART Moves (Skills Mastery and Resistance Training) prevention/education program addresses problems such as drug and alcohol use and premature sexual activity. The ultimate goal: to promote abstinence from substance abuse and adolescent sexual involvement through the practice of responsible behavior.
Passport to Manhood
Passport to Manhood promotes and teaches responsibility in Club boys ages 8-17. Passport to Manhood consists of lessons that concentrate on specific aspects of manhood through highly interactive activities. Each Club participant receives his own “passport” to underscore the notion that he is on a personal journey of maturation and growth. Passport to Manhood represents a targeted effort to engage young men in discussions activities that reinforce positive behavior.
SMART Girls
SMART Girls is a small-group health, fitness, prevention/education and self-esteem enhancement program designed to meet the developmental needs of girls in three age groups. Through dynamic sessions, highly participatory activities, field trips and mentoring opportunities with adult women, Club girls explore their own and societal attitudes and values as they build skills for eating right, staying physically fit, getting good health care and developing positive relationships with peers and adults.
Cooking classes
Money Matters
Learning personal finance. This program is designed specifically to help teens (ages 13 to 18) expand their knowledge of money management and learn the skills that lead to financial independence and well-being.
Character and Leadership Development
Youth of the Year
Being named Youth of the Year is the highest honor a Club member can receive. The title recognizes outstanding contributions to a member’s family, school, community and the Club as well as academic achievement and overcoming life obstacles.
Keystone Club
A teen council program providing members with skills needed to lead productive lives.
Keystone activities focus on:
• Character and leadership development
• Service to the Club and the community
• Education and career exploration
• Free enterprise
• Unity
• Social recreation
Torch Club
A group of Club members, ages 11 – 13, who develop and implement activities fostering the principles of freedom, justice and tolerance in order to become caring, competent leaders.
K-Kids
Sponsored by the Kiwanis Club, this program is a service club for elementary-aged children. K-Kids emphasizes the importance of community stewardship, service and responsibility.
Teen Volunteers
Teens mentoring younger members.
Community Service
In 2019, 692 club members generated 5,536 hours of volunteer community service.


Mailing Address:
Boys & Girls Club of Henderson County
PO Box 1460
Hendersonville, NC 28793
Street Address:
Boys & Girls Club of Henderson County
1304 Ashe Street
Hendersonville, NC 28792
Phone: 828-693-9444
E-mail: info@bgchendersonco.org