YES Cyber Project

Claude was involved in opening the first Community based internet access point in partnership with Unity Housing ass and Thomas Danby in January 2000, called YesCyber. It was opened in a disused takeaway shop on Chapeltown Road. In 1998 a local college had the idea of starting a cyber cafe, where the Internet could take customers beyond the physical location and time, but the initiative failed. Hendrickson understood the potential of the idea and saw it as a way of extending the services of the Club.

In 1999 a partnership was formed resulting in the YES (Youth Enquiry Service) Cyber Cafe, which he and his associates run in partnership with Thomas Danby College and Unity Housing Association.

The cafe's fully operational Web site was launched in January 2000 (www.yescyber.org.uk). The cafe's physical location is 131 Chapeltown Road in Leeds, where users are served tea and coffee. Services like e-mail addresses, Internet access and IT training are overseen by trained and experienced staff, who also act as role models and mentors.