22-03-2025
Boys and Girls Club of the Coastal Plain to build new location in Beaufort
BEAUFORT, N.C. (WNCT)- The Boys and Girls Club of the Coastal Plain will be building a new location in Beaufort.
The 20,000-square-foot building will be behind Beaufort Elementary School and Beaufort Middle School and will double the amount of children the organization can serve every day.
The club will have instructional and activity rooms, a teen club, an indoor gym and outdoor athletic spaces.
The property and construction will cost up to $8 million for the organization.
'We are in the middle of our capital campaign project, which is called Building Better Futures. It's a $25 million campaign which will allow us to build three new sites,' Chief Development Officer Brittany Spear said. 'Carteret County is getting the first beautiful building which is why we broke ground today.'
Eighteen percent of Carteret County children are growing up in poverty, according to the Boys and Girls Club of the Coastal Plain. For West Carteret High School sophomore Makayla Duncan, the club helped her come out of her shell.
'I was very insecure in middle school,' Duncan said. 'Boys and Girls Club was like a place that I could lay back on and just be who I wanted to be and not have to worry about people judging me or having to worry about me fitting in and I could just be myself.'
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