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00:00Marches on
00:01Here we go for it!
00:02Let's get going!
00:03Come on in we go!
00:04Oh my gosh I love it so much!
00:07Stunning!
00:08Look at this Ralph
00:09Yeah!
00:10Thank you!
00:11Taking on extraordinary builds
00:14Look at that it's over the house
00:16Hello!
00:17For even more extraordinary people
00:19Here we go
00:21I didn't think I'd ever get upstairs again
00:25Send all the builders down
00:28Along with our secret weapon
00:30It's like an army
00:31It's a lot of people isn't it?
00:32They're still coming!
00:33The great British public
00:35I'm excited!
00:37I didn't know I had this many friends
00:40Are we up for it?
00:41Yeah!
00:42Let's get outside!
00:44This time
00:45I don't want it swinging into the steel work
00:47Stop it there! Stop it there!
00:50We're taking on one of our most challenging community builds
00:53Why would you do that?
00:54I got emotionally involved if I'm truly honest
00:56The job's so huge
00:58I can't see where I'm going
01:00Even the gladiators are pitching in
01:02I'm just glad I could put the muscles to use
01:05Where's the sewer gone?
01:06That's what we're trying to plan
01:07We shouldn't be doing this today
01:09It looks like a war zone at the moment
01:11Now at what point do you say
01:13I'm sorry I failed
01:14We just can't deliver what I said we could
01:16Because it was just too much in the end
01:17I'm off to beat the team at Cherry Tree Community Centre
01:31In East Riding in Yorkshire
01:32During Covid they needed to change their youth club
01:36Into a food pantry
01:38And since then they haven't been able to change it back
01:41It means they have nowhere for their young people to go anymore
01:44So they've asked us to come up
01:45Have a look see if we can help out
01:50We're down to one camping chair
01:53We are helping and supporting children and young people
02:04From the age of nine
02:06Never mind you can soon get back in
02:08It's always so so busy here
02:10And fun and never ever dull
02:13Go Nando
02:16We have a range of activities that we can put on for them
02:19Rounders, dodgeball
02:20Good one this team
02:21Football
02:22Right, right
02:23Can we do a game of football as well?
02:26Yes
02:27We've got a ball
02:28They're good kids
02:29They just need a place to come
02:31Have we got four
02:32Against these two?
02:33Yes
02:34Alright I like that
02:35At the moment our sessions
02:37They're not structured
02:39You can't really be structured when you don't have a place to be
02:44Oh, unlucky
02:50We run now a youth club in the park currently
02:54We have our gazebo
02:55We set that up
02:56In the winter it's quite dreadful to be honest
03:00Raining, snowing
03:02Hi, do you want some pizza?
03:04Go see Josh there then
03:09This area is in the bottom 15% of deprivation in the country
03:18Everybody's struggling
03:19When you do fall into poverty
03:21Children do suffer
03:22We speak to many kids who have not eaten anything for days
03:24Please can she just have food?
03:26Yes
03:28We know the need is there
03:30We know they don't all have hot food to eat that night
03:34There are young people who don't have trusted adults to go to
03:38I run the sessions now but I was one of the young people myself
03:45I used to be a young carer
03:47At home it was quite difficult carrying the sort of responsibilities of the family
03:53So coming to Cherry Tree sort of gave me an escape from that
03:57I've been where they are
03:59For the past five years Joe and Fiona have been doing all they can to find a new base for the youth club
04:14I'm begging for places
04:15I'm just asking for one room for these kids
04:18But nobody listens
04:19I need ovens
04:20I need ovens
04:21I need ovens
04:22What is a good thing?
04:23It's not ovens
04:25If we can't find somewhere for the youth club to have a home
04:30I do dread
04:32Where the young people will turn to
04:34Because there is nowhere else for them
04:36I'm heading to meet Joe who manages all the charity services
04:44A little food shop
04:45Hello
04:46Hello
04:47Hi Nick
04:48In the building where the youth club used to be
04:50So it's a food pantry?
04:53A food pantry yes
04:54But we thought the pantry would only be here for six months in lockdown
04:58But we are feeding 1,548 members
05:02Wow
05:03You can't just close that down
05:04No
05:05There must be somewhere else that you could have the youth club
05:07We're homeless
05:08We're on the park
05:09It's been really difficult in the winter months
05:11I've gone through six gazebos
05:13I've got that many
05:14A gazebo in the winter?
05:15Yeah it's awful
05:16It's awful
05:17Have you got anything at all?
05:18Yes so we've got these shipping containers we've had donated to us
05:21And we've had planning permission
05:22So we can put out containers on the park
05:25So they're going to allow you to build something
05:27You've just got to get the something built?
05:30Yes
05:31I think I'd better have a look at them
05:34So it's this big one here
05:36Well these ones here?
05:37Yeah
05:38They look like they've been around forever
05:39Look at them
05:41And the door's battered
05:45I mean they look reasonably watertight
05:47I don't know how much life they've got left in them
05:51All the way along the seams
05:52They're all heavily eaten with rust
05:56I don't think they're worth the time
05:59The money to repair
06:02And I wouldn't be able to guarantee
06:04That they'd last any length of time if we did
06:07They're just not good enough I'm afraid
06:10These are all I've got
06:12And this is the only hope I've had
06:14I suppose it's just home truth today isn't it?
06:18Can I still come along and meet the kids?
06:20Yeah
06:25The charity have planning permission to build a club in this park
06:28Hello
06:29Hi
06:30Nice to meet you
06:31Nice to meet you
06:32But they don't have the funds to achieve their dream
06:35Listen I'd get into it if I was you
06:36Because these chips are going to be freezing in no time at all
06:39Hello
06:40Can I ask you a question?
06:41Yeah
06:42Is that alright?
06:43So why do you come along and join in?
06:44It's fun
06:45And what are the people like that run it?
06:46They're always there if you need them
06:48And like they're always there to help you and stuff
06:50What sort of things can you talk to them about?
06:52Anything like literally anything
06:53Really?
06:54Why do you come and join in?
06:55Because it's fun
06:56I'm over here
06:57Yeah
07:00And what do you think about the idea of building a permanent structure?
07:04It'd be good because then we wouldn't be as cold
07:06It would get us off the streets
07:08Too many people on the streets
07:09What's the best thing?
07:10The games? The pizza? The friends? What's the best thing?
07:12I like pizzas
07:14Yeah, I like pizzas too to be honest
07:16But are there lots of things around here for you to go and do and join in with?
07:19Not so much
07:20Right
07:21So this is quite important is it?
07:23Yeah, it's very important
07:29How many kids do you get along to this?
07:31Up to 150
07:33So what are they coming here for? Are they coming to play football? Are they coming for a slice of pizza?
07:37A little bit of everything
07:38Some of it's a check-in
07:40I need to catch up with you
07:41Different dilemmas
07:42We're here for all of that
07:44The need is huge and endless
07:47And going forward setting in a gazebo is not the right place
07:50No
07:51It's freezing here, my feet are frozen
07:53Yeah, well it's hard work actually
07:55It's hard work being out here when you're cold
07:58And we need the toilet to have a place would be incredible
08:05It never fails to amaze me how many people you meet as you go around the country
08:08All voluntarily doing amazing things in communities like this
08:12Very often without the support they need
08:14There's no buildings, there's no sewerage, there's no electric, there's no water
08:19There's nothing at all, literally nothing
08:21But it's needed
08:23Mental health
08:24Support
08:25One of the worries about school
08:26Kids that haven't eaten
08:31Shouldn't have to be in a gazebo should it?
08:33Okay, so the reason that I came here was to find out what you had
08:45And it turned out you haven't got anything at all
08:48And the piece of land here is going to be really difficult to work with
08:52But it is very clear that there is an absolute need here
08:55So under those circumstances and because I've been watching the kids playing football
08:59And joining in and watching them shiver under a gazebo
09:04The only decision we can make is that we will come and do it
09:22I don't know how we're going to do it
09:23I don't know what to say
09:28I haven't done anything yet
09:32I think it's amazing
09:33Alright, well I've made a promise now so I'll see you in a few weeks time
09:37It's amazing, thank you so much
09:38Thank you
09:39Thank you
09:40Thank you
09:41Wow
09:43It's like just grabbed me by the heart
09:45And it took me straight back to my youth
09:46And thinking how important it would have been
09:48For me to have had that opportunity to have a youth club
09:51And what it would have done for the kids on my estate
09:53I'm just going to break it to the team now that I've said yes
09:55I don't have a clue how we're going to do this one
09:57Really? I should have said no, but how do you say no?
10:02There is quite a big hole so shall we get some hammer fencing up?
10:13Yeah, let's put some up
10:14Three months of planning and preparation have passed since I was last in East Riding
10:19Yeah, go here
10:21Go on the angle
10:22Yeah, that's fine
10:23We've also used the time to lay concrete foundations
10:28Morning
10:29Jo, Chloe, Fiona, how you doing?
10:30Hello
10:31Hello
10:32So excited
10:33Ready to meet the people that are going to do this?
10:34Yeah
10:35Yes
10:36Go on
10:37Building an entire youth centre from scratch in eight days will take a monumental effort
10:42That local tradespeople and volunteers have arrived ready to help
10:49So many people
10:54It's amazing, I can't believe it
10:59I can't believe how many people are giving up their time
11:05I've been running this youth group out of my car for years
11:10For me, it's a game changer
11:12A youth centre can make such a difference
11:16So thank you so much
11:18So I used to come to the youth club when I was younger
11:21And now I work for the youth club
11:24And I don't know where I'd be if I didn't ever come to the youth club
11:31It opened up so many more opportunities for me
11:36And I just want to be able to do that for all the other young people
11:41And this is one of many which you can make that difference to
11:44So thank you all so much
11:46Thank you
11:47Thank you
11:48Thank you
11:50Thank you
11:54I grew up in a place like this
11:55The kind of places that people say
11:57Oh, don't bother building anything nice there
11:59It will just get destroyed
12:01You have to build stuff in tough places
12:03You have to make a difference
12:04You have to change
12:17I didn't expect it could get me
12:21You will make this happen
12:23You will change the futures of young people around here
12:26With what we're about to do
12:29Are we up for it?
12:30Yeah
12:31Let's get outside
12:38We need to get that crane as soon as possible
12:39We do
12:45So we've got the crane here to lift the steel in
12:47It's fast, isn't it?
12:48This is what I love
12:52There's a lot of beeping
12:53So we have a steel frame, right?
12:56Yep
12:57So the steel frame goes in
12:58Yeah
12:59Then we've got block work
13:00Yeah
13:01Then we can drop a timber roof on top of that
13:03My concern is if we don't reach that point today
13:06Yeah
13:07Even on day one we could be in trouble
13:08Yeah
13:09So basically I have volunteered us to do a complete ground up in a field brand new build on a site that's got no services at all
13:26Oh here we go
13:27We haven't got any electric, haven't got any water and we haven't got any like anywhere for the sewage to go
13:33Why? Why would you do that?
13:35I got emotionally involved if I'm truly honest and felt we couldn't walk away from it
13:40So it starts with two sea containers and they will sit either end of a steel frame and then timber frame infill
13:48And then we're going to put basically a glazed section in between
13:51The charity's shipping containers weren't fit for purpose but they were part of the planning permission
13:57So we've had to get two new ones that will form the ends of a steel frame building with floor to ceiling glass windows
14:04We're filling this with lovely fun things like stages
14:07Yeah, we really want to give them a space where they can dream, where they can have fun
14:12We've got a cinema screen
14:13But food poverty is a massive problem in this neighbourhood
14:17And that's one of the main things that this charity deals with
14:20They don't want any child to leave this place hungry
14:22With that in mind one of the containers will house a kitchen to help feed any children who've been missing meals
14:29There will also be a breakout room ideal for private conversations
14:34The main hub will be an open-plan multi-purpose space with a central stage
14:39While the second container will have a storeroom and toilets
14:45Everything in this building needs to have a double function
14:48This stage you can fold it up because they need to do sports in there and crafts
14:52You know, this needs to work for everything
14:54Cupboards that are sort of make-up stations
14:56Sounds like that requires quite a bit of bespoke joinery
14:58To make sure that then everything is set out exactly as they need
15:01But also what I really like is an amazing outdoor kitchen
15:04Yes
15:05Also an outdoor gym
15:06Anything that gets kids outside and being active has got to be a good thing, right?
15:10Exercising in the fresh air, can't get better than that
15:12And then the rest of the space we need to do something really fabulous with
15:15What I'm thinking is edible plants
15:18Food growing is so important for kids, education
15:21And we're then able to feed them from the garden
15:23Yeah, absolutely
15:24I think this would be brilliant
15:26So let's concentrate on the young people
15:28Go on!
15:29Let's go for this
15:30Yes!
15:31That was so good!
15:32Off you go then, son
15:34Now I'm on holiday
15:36Come on!
15:37Let's go!
15:38Until this is art
15:42I just feel like a sort of, I don't know
15:44Expectant father pacing around at a waiting room
15:51All of a sudden somebody's ordered a wheelbarrow army
15:53Actually at the front of the wheelbarrow army
15:55There's some people I wanted to say hello to
15:57Bolstering our ranks are three gladiators
16:00Tom and Listers, AKA Hammer and Cyclone
16:03Nice to see we got you to work straight away
16:05It's good of you to come along
16:07And Fury, real name Jodie, who's leading the charge
16:10I'm from up north, I'm from Dewsbury
16:13Right
16:14So it feels very familiar
16:16Like when I was growing up
16:17I sort of came to a park like this
16:19I think young kids need that
16:20And it's made a big impact on my life
16:22So I just think that's really cool
16:24That we've been able to do something like that
16:26It's just nice to help
16:27Also Tom, as your gladiator name is Hammer
16:29It seems appropriate
16:31And Renee was in
16:32Any wars that need knocking down
16:34Well I tell you what
16:35I am also going to lean on your fame a little bit
16:36Because we've been trying to get hold of some more fitness equipment
16:39Could we use you guys to maybe put some shout outs on social media and things
16:43To see if we can get people to go
16:44Yeah we'll come forward and we'll donate some stuff
16:46And we use you that way as well
16:47Is that alright?
16:48Yeah absolutely
16:49Thank you
16:50Thank you very much
16:51Doing all this for the youth club is incredible
16:54This is the centre of this community
16:56I can see how something like this would have a huge impact
17:00I think for kids to have that opportunity and just bring them together
17:03And get out of the house
17:04Meet new people
17:05In the gym
17:06Like it's just going to be unreal for them
17:08We are here with DIY SOS
17:10Helping them build the most amazing youth club
17:13The only thing is that we don't have the gym equipment
17:16We need your help
17:17Any support, connections you have
17:19We need you
17:20Back to work you pair
17:21Come on
17:22Our steel frame is on track to be up by day's end
17:28We're going to have to just conveyor belt through a whole bunch of walls
17:31But the timber structure we need to fit inside it tomorrow
17:35Squeeze in there a little bit
17:36Has hit a snag
17:37So when's the timber frame arriving?
17:39Well that's the issue
17:41Is that while we thought that a company was going to be able to be prefabbing all the timber framing we need for this build
17:46Instead we weren't able to find that and we have to build a factory on site
17:50And the issue is that all that has to get done in about a day and a half
17:53That way
17:55That way
17:56Radar and his carpentry team need to build 18 timber frames on site
18:01You want ten and a longer length?
18:03Short ones
18:04Perfect
18:05A job that would take much longer in a factory
18:08There's a lot going on
18:10There's no way you should be able to do this in that time
18:12But we've got so much
18:14We've got a lot of people here
18:15But everything needs to fall into place
18:17Otherwise it will fail
18:18Starting with no building brings a whole load of issues
18:25Even the most basic utilities have to be installed
18:29This was a field, a play park
18:31Where's the electric?
18:33Where's the water?
18:34How's it getting here?
18:35So we've got power guys sorting that
18:37Right
18:38And the water is behind you
18:39In a duct
18:40Wait what about sewage though?
18:41You see that house there?
18:42And we're putting the sewage into their garden
18:44That's where the nearest sewer pipe is to tap into
18:46Yeah
18:47So we've basically got
18:48But you've run that past the homeowner
18:50But you're going to have to probably just go over
18:51And just a little tap on the door
18:53Okay
18:54We haven't run it past it yet
18:55No
18:56Can you just pop over and say hello?
18:57What if she says no?
18:58I don't know to be honest with you
18:59But that's the only place we can tap into
19:01All right
19:02I'll go and have a word
19:03All right
19:04Cheers Nick
19:05I think I've just been done
19:10Well I guess this is the one
19:17Hello
19:19Hello
19:21Hello
19:22Hello
19:23I'm Nick
19:24Hello I'm Angie
19:25Hello Angie how are you?
19:26I'm fine thank you
19:27I've got a bit of a request
19:29With the thing that we're building
19:30You know what we're building over there
19:31The trouble is the only place we can tap into the sewage works
19:34Is in your back garden
19:35Okay
19:36Can I have a look?
19:37And I can show you
19:38You don't have to say yes or no straight away
19:40So we'd have to take up some of your pathway
19:43Which means we'd have to move your shed
19:45And then take a bit of the fence out
19:47I promise you
19:49That we will make it good
19:50We'll make the grass good
19:52We'll make the pathway good
19:53Are you sure on this?
19:55This is the only way we can do it
20:01Okay
20:02Yeah
20:03I'll go with it
20:04Because it's something for the kids
20:05And that is what the kids need
20:06Something to do
20:07So I'll out with you
20:08Really?
20:09I will yes
20:10Really?
20:11Yes
20:12Yes I will
20:13Can I have a hug?
20:14Yes
20:15That's amazing
20:16Do you know what?
20:17The fact that she said
20:18The youngsters need somewhere around here
20:20Just gives you an idea
20:21Of how people understand what's going on
20:23So massive result
20:25While our excavation team search for a sewage pint
20:28See if we're going to enjoy here then
20:30A giant donation has arrived
20:33I've been told that the sea containers
20:35Yes
20:36Are nearby
20:37Are nearby
20:44Look at that
20:45Look at the size of those things
20:46Only just baited it under the telephone wires
20:51What we need
20:52Is we need that shipping container
20:53Tight up against those stills
20:55The main building framework is up
20:57Now we need to crane our two shipping containers
21:02Into place at either end
21:04The key point is the wind
21:08That we don't get a sudden gust
21:10We've got to make sure we're very very gentle
21:12And we don't knock any of the block work off
21:14Any of the stills or anything
21:15Anything really
21:16That's it
21:17All right
21:18Let's go have a look
21:19Each container weighs 2.7 tons
21:21Have your wits about you everyone
21:23Any collision could cause permanent damage
21:25To the container wall
21:26Or make the steel frame structurally unsound
21:29Oh, I can't bear it
21:30This is why I hate men
21:31It's just that there's no margin for error
21:33And it just makes me so stressed
21:35I can't even watch it
21:41The wind's getting up
21:42You can see it with the trees moving
21:46God, it'll be very, very careful of you
21:52Oh, watch the bang
21:56Oh, Jesus Christ
22:00I can't bear it
22:01Whoa, whoa, whoa, a little
22:03Tell him to come down
22:04Down
22:05Yeah, but hang on
22:06I don't want it swinging into the steel work
22:13Down, down
22:14I'll put you down so we can get her arms on it
22:16Just get your edge on it
22:17All right, we got it
22:18Stop it there
22:19Stop it there
22:20Steady, steady, nice and steady now
22:21Just everyone got control of it
22:22Just everyone watch the block work and everything else
22:26Oh, that way
22:27It's water and steel
22:28Yep
22:29Is it stuck on?
22:30Yeah
22:31He's got it down
22:32He's clear now
22:33He's clear, you're good
22:34Yeah
22:35That was hairy
22:36Yeah
22:37To me, to me
22:38Whoa, whoa, whoa
22:39You've gone the other way
22:40Back to me, to me
22:41Back to me
22:42Back to me
22:43There
22:44There, there
22:45There, there, there
22:46There, there, there
22:47Drop it down
22:48Drop it down
22:49Good, good, good
22:50Good, good
22:51That's one in
22:54Now we've got to do it all over again on the second one
22:57And it's half past eight
23:00I mean, everyone's been putting such a shift today
23:02I can't tell you what a joy it is to work with these people
23:04Like, the enthusiasm and the dedication is incredible
23:07I love it
23:08I love, love, love it
23:09It doesn't matter how long the day is, I love it
23:17To the millimetre
23:18Well done, guys
23:30Can I have a poached egg on toast, please, my darling
23:32What?
23:33One poached egg
23:35Yeah, just like, breakfast
23:37Out of eight eggs in an omelette, please
23:40Yeah, I mean
23:41Not twelve
23:43Ten
23:44Just compromise in the middle
23:45Ten eggs for me
23:48With the main building, steel structure finished
23:52The concrete and breeze-blocked floor can start going in
23:56Four blocks!
24:01What I like about this system is
24:03Once you've got everything set up
24:05It flies in, doesn't it?
24:06I mean, we're literally going
24:07We'll be walking across this and be finished in half an hour
24:15That'll go down
24:16Perfect
24:17You walk round that side
24:18Watch your fingers
24:19After a Herculean effort
24:21Hand crafting all the wooden frames for the interior walls
24:24Radha's team are nearly there
24:27How many have we done?
24:28This is number 17
24:30So we've got one last one to do
24:32And these guys are working like a machine
24:35Oh
24:37Letting me pencil
24:38No, letting me pencil
24:39No, letting me pencil
24:43It's amazing
24:44That we're already at this place
24:46It's pretty mad
24:47The timing is so, so, so tight
24:50So today we're up for it
24:54Keep bringing the beams
24:55Keep bringing the beams
24:56I've taken five minutes out from the build to go and have a chat with Chloe
25:03She went to the youth club as a child and now is a youth club worker
25:06So I'm not sure there's anyone better to tell us how important it is
25:13Hello you
25:14Hello
25:15Can I come and have a chat?
25:16Yeah
25:17Is that right?
25:18Yeah
25:19There we go
25:20So do you think if you actually had a building that you could make a big difference?
25:24I feel like it's really important to give them a safe space
25:28If they want to just be a child at the youth club they can do that
25:32I'm trying to get to a point where they can confide in you
25:35If they have no one else to confide in, who do they go to?
25:38So tell me about you when you came to the youth club
25:42I had quite a tough childhood
25:44It was always tiptoe around the house
25:46Don't speak
25:47Stay out the way
25:48It was sort of like a...
25:59Take your time, I'm sorry
26:02In stepping into the youth club world there was somebody who could look after me
26:08Is that the motivation you don't want anyone to feel like you did?
26:11Yeah
26:13Here you are, you've got a job, you're going to college, you're doing really well
26:18Will your 12, 13 year old self recognise you now?
26:21No
26:22I feel like I'm...
26:23Who I am now is the big sister I always wanted when I was little
26:27You should be very proud of that
26:28Yeah
26:29And what we're going to do is going to give you an environment in which you can carry on doing that amazing work and be big sister a lot of other people too
26:36Yeah, hopefully
26:38Now the floor's down and perfectly level
26:45Welcome to Cherry Tree Youth Club
26:49It looks amazing
26:51Gabby can outline her grand plans
26:54So we've got two openings over here
26:56So we've got an accessible loo and then we've got in there we've got a store
27:00We've got a beautiful open plan kitchen here and we've got a little breakout space
27:04Okay
27:05It's going to be great
27:06Let's have a look at the building here
27:07So we've got a new shaped kitchen, we've got a lovely ovens and stuff tucked away here
27:12Why don't you overfly the worktop so we can have like a tucking breakfast bar on
27:16I'm doing that already
27:17Oh yeah
27:20It's not my first rodeo, sweetheart
27:23So that still leaves us with a massive space out here
27:26This is where we've got the big glass, so it's a lovely view of the park
27:29I think of this room as like a Swiss Army knife design
27:32I want everything to do two things
27:34So they can play sports in here, they can do crafts
27:37This is going to be the hub of everything
27:39So they can have a party in here by clearing away all the tables and chairs
27:42We've got a disco board going up, we've got an amazing lighting system
27:45Oh, oh, and I forgot, we've got a cinema screen
27:47This is going to blow them away when it's done, isn't it?
27:49Yeah
27:50All we've got to do is get it done
27:54That's right
27:55With a prefab roof in place
27:57That's bang on my line
27:59Billionaire Sparkies can crack on with putting in 1,000 metres of cabling
28:04We've actually wired the two containers
28:06The containers are near enough done now, so we've just got this main area
28:09And then everything else is up in the ceiling
28:12There's a lot to do though, isn't there?
28:13There's a lot to do
28:15All our builds are hard
28:17But this is especially hard because it's brand new
28:20It's from the ground up
28:22This, for us, is a big challenge
28:26We're trying to connect the youth club toilets to the nearest main sewer
28:31Here we go, that's nice
28:32Dig a hole through there, lovely
28:33We've dug up a neighbour's garden
28:36Oh, that doesn't look good
28:37That doesn't look good
28:39Where we were expecting to find a sewer pipe
28:44That manhole's not where it should be
28:50It's not there
28:51Where's the pipe? Where's the sewer gone? Where's the sewer gone?
28:54That's what we're trying to find at the minute
28:55Where's all the sewage going from the house here?
28:59If it's, if there's not a pipe out the back?
29:01It's running right along the house
29:02And then into that sewer
29:04And dipping in next door
29:05Two houses are going into one
29:06So if we want to do this
29:08We dig a bit of gold in their garden
29:10So that we can change their drain
29:12So it all connects up
29:14Well that, I didn't see that coming
29:17That's made that a lot more interesting all of a sudden, hasn't it?
29:20We can't hand over a youth club with no working toilets
29:23On a scale of one to ten
29:25Of not good for the job
29:26That's about nine and a half
29:28So we're now going to need a digger
29:29And about eight men on that
29:33It's a massive, massive issue
29:42Come on boy
29:45Pass me a spade
29:47Do something different
29:51All good?
29:53Slowly, the building is beginning to emerge
29:5918 timber wall frames built by Radha's team are being fitted
30:07Ready for Chris and his team to get plastering
30:10It's all going to be boarded and skimmed
30:12That's where my mind's going now
30:13Yeah, so we've got quite a challenge in that
30:15It's like every time you get over one challenge in this
30:17You think, great, we're like
30:19And then here comes the next challenge
30:20Like, riding up to slap you in the face like a wet fish
30:23Keep going, keep going
30:25Keep going, push, push
30:27It's like wrestling a snake
30:29It's the moment of truth for our youth club toilets
30:32We found the main sewer by digging up another kind neighbour's garden
30:36But the club is 80 metres away
30:38Pull a bit more through
30:41And then pull it back up
30:43If we can't lay in this huge stretch of pipe to connect them up
30:46It's back to the drawing board
30:49All hands on deck?
30:51Yeah
30:53Thankfully, Jamie, aka Giant from the Gladiators
30:56Has also come to help
30:58Push it, keep pushing
31:04Good
31:05All right, further back on the pull back
31:08Three, two, one, back
31:10One big push
31:12All at the same time, two
31:14Three, three
31:16That's right, that's fine, that's fine
31:18Yay!
31:19We're done
31:20All right, well done everyone
31:22Very good, very good, very good
31:24Well done
31:25Thanks for putting the sewage connection
31:28Has been probably the most troublesome thing on the whole build
31:30So actually to have it connected up now
31:32It's a bit of a godsend really
31:34You can do all the engineering you like
31:35In the end it comes down to brute force sometimes
31:37Yeah, well I'm just glad I could put the muscles to use
31:40Yeah
31:42I'm gonna come over this mountain of rubble
31:44We've mapped out this flower border
31:46Now we need to see where the kitchen is
31:47I know this seems absolutely mad
31:48But I just need to be able to see this
31:51Because at the moment it's just looking like an absolute building site
31:54With the sewage setbacks calling in so many resources
31:58Ash hasn't been able to start planting or setting up the outdoor kitchen and edible garden
32:03We are way behind already
32:05On a normal domestic build
32:07I would have a footprint of a garden already there
32:09It looks like a war zone at the moment
32:11If you've got plastered we need to ask you to leave
32:13We've got to start plastering in the next 10 minutes
32:15We're almost halfway through the schedule and the scale of the job is still overwhelming
32:17The trouble is if you look at any one area in this build it will worry you
32:33Are there enough plasterers to do the plastering so that the kitchen can go in?
32:35Will the kitchen go in fast enough that the second fix can go in?
32:41Will the sewerage work? Will the electric work?
32:44If you think about it all, it will just drive you back
32:45Will the sewerage work? Will the electric work?
32:48If you think about it all, it will just drive you back
33:04All right
33:08After pulling a late one the first stage of the electrics and plastering has been completed
33:13Woohoo! Kitchen day
33:17Gabby can finally set about working on the inside of the club
33:21Oh, now we can get cracking
33:23Right, the kitchen's at this end
33:25Ah, so excited
33:27Thank you
33:30Okay, so enormous oven
33:32Lovely sink there
33:34And an absolutely hugemongous fridge
33:36This space is almost the most important space in this building
33:40Because what we want is no kid to leave here hungry
33:44We've got the gym kit! Come on!
33:56The gladiators' call out for our garden activity area has come up trumps
34:01So we've got a variety of stuff, we've got pedal bars
34:04On bicycle
34:05I mean that's fabulous isn't it?
34:06Yep, absolutely
34:07Anything that gets the kids moving and
34:08And it's like a way for them to decompress
34:11Distract themselves from things that might be going in their lives
34:13Okay, we're not going to be putting them in for a while
34:14But in the meantime
34:15Yes!
34:17Well done!
34:26To make sure the centre is the best it can be for the community
34:30Gabby wants to learn more about the local kids
34:33So how many of your mates would you be bringing with you to Cherry Tree?
34:38She's gone to meet 14-year-old Billy, who lives on a nearby estate
34:41So what's it like living around here?
34:44It's a very little town
34:45And everyone kind of knows everything
34:47Everyone knows everyone
34:48And how's it been for you guys?
34:49Because I know your age group have been through some really tough times recently, haven't you?
34:54Yeah, like it's been, I think in the past five years we've lost three of our friends
34:59And when you get them phone calls, finding out that people you know have died like so quickly
35:04It is, it's awful
35:07Then the Cherry Tree Community Centre have really, you know, helped us with that
35:11They got the organised councils and things like that
35:14Just so we could speak to people because
35:17I'm so sorry, that's massive to cope with that
35:21And do you feel, so when all this was going on
35:24You guys had lost your youth centre
35:26You know, there's nowhere for your age group to actually be together, is there?
35:30No, there's not anywhere now
35:32And tell me about what a safe space would feel like for you and your friends
35:36You know, just some way you can go where you know you're not going to be getting into trouble
35:39And some way you can go, you know, when you need something
35:41And there's people there you can speak to
35:43Because, you know, it'd get us off the street
35:45Things like that, it's just trying to keep everyone out of trouble
35:48As much as you can
35:50Speaking to Billy really brought it home to me
35:52This centre's got to provide a safe space for people who don't feel they have one
35:56But I also want them to just feel full of fun, adventure
36:01You know, new dreams, new horizons
36:03I want it to be really special for them
36:09Fitting everything the kids need into this space needs careful thinking
36:13Rada, my love
36:15And another mission for our wood wizard
36:18Can I just hit you with my list of things?
36:20Yeah, yeah, yeah, just like back to back it for me
36:22Right, so I want a backdrop to the stage, I want an arch
36:25But I want kind of a couple of layers
36:27So I've just done a sketch here
36:29We've also got storage for loads of kind of beauty, makeup
36:33Well, okay, so like a vanity unit kind of style
36:36And also in the two loos
36:39I'd love you to make some shelving for the walls
36:42That we're going to fill with all the toiletries they might need
36:44That's the principle of nobody needs to be embarrassed by asking for stuff
36:47You just go in there and there's everything you need
36:49It's making me feel a bit sick to even actually verbalise this list
36:53It's definitely a little scary, but the joinery team is fantastic
37:04So we've marked out the corner of the gym area
37:06We've got the pizza oven to go here
37:09Ash still has to wait before he can landscape and plant
37:11But he can make a start on the outdoor kitchen
37:14We can get this done
37:16This is going to add so much benefit to the local community
37:19The kids are going to love this area
37:21We're two-thirds of the way through our build schedule
37:23Right my loves, let's get this sorted
37:24And Gabby has to press on with painting
37:28Whoa whoa!
37:30Whoa whoa!
37:31Whoa whoa!
37:32Whoa whoa!
37:33Whoa whoa!
37:34Whoa whoa?
37:35Whoa whoa!
37:36Whoa whoa nada
37:37We're two-thirds of the way through our build schedule
37:40Right my loves, let's get this sorted
37:42And Gabby has to press on with painting
37:47Whoa whoa whoa
37:48Whoa!
37:49Are you sure about this one Gabby?
37:50Gaby? It is quite leery in a good way. So this is our main colour so the whole
37:56feel will be really like pops of interest I want them to come in here and
38:00think you know there's that and there's this but it's not in your face. Thanks
38:05John. The next couple of days we'll see if we've got it right with the paints but
38:11it's always nerve-wracking.
38:14Mind your back. Sorry darling. So we've managed to find beautiful collapsible
38:23stage. Which way did it collapse? Down. So in and out. This is gonna be the real
38:30focus of this whole room where they can expand their horizons a bit and when
38:34that when they walk in I want to just be like we've got karaoke here what's your
38:38go-to karaoke bell? I'll call it the Gat song. I feel it in my fingers. I feel it in my
38:46toes. Cause love is all around us and the feeling for us.
38:53Yeah that's what I like to eat. Let's go. Right gang we're gonna load up these
39:09turfs here and get them down. We've got a lot to get in.
39:16Huge amount of turf. Yes. 950 square meters of turf. It's it's gonna be it's gonna be tight.
39:23I mean this is this turf is gonna take a few hours definitely to get that down.
39:29Right first piece of turf going down. With an area almost the size of five
39:36tennis schools to cover Ash calls in the cavalry. Hello. Hello. Have you laid turf before?
39:42That's it huh? Is it something you've done? I'm so glad you're here. This is good. This
39:47is good. This is what we need. We need all hands on deck because I'm actually pretty
39:51nervous that we're not gonna finish this in time. The toughest thing for Ash is
39:54it hasn't been able to get at what for any other landscaper would be three months
39:59of work and we get in two days. I'm not altogether sure that that's possible.
40:02It's good doesn't it? I like it there. CTYH Cherry Tree Youth Hub. What? Well I'm just a bit tense that this is on
40:22on the back of the building not not the front. Well this is the side. It's on the plans. This is the side. But give me the plans.
40:34Don't get shouty. It's just possible that I made a mistake. We need it. We need it where it's the
40:40entrance and this isn't the entrance. This is the emergency exit. Have you got enough letters to do it twice?
40:46Have we got enough letters to do it twice? Not here or made yet. How long would it take to make them?
40:51What time can I start in the morning? Seven o'clock okay? Seven o'clock perfect. If you can get four letters and we can put them on the front
40:58tomorrow morning we'll go for that. That would be amazing. Deal. And we'll keep that up. Love it. Okay. All right. I'll best get on. Thank you.
41:06Lovely lettering by the way. Good.
41:09A whole day later than planned, flooring is going down inside. And is this totally bomb proof? Bulletproof.
41:20Bulletproof. Kid proof. But nothing else can be worked on until that's finished. Right. Come on then. Let's get on. Come on then.
41:27Putting huge pressure on the final day of the build. I might buy a lottery ticket because the chances of it happening are about the same. So
41:36with the outgoing Meloxin.
41:43So much fencing to do. Err 70 meters at this to put in. With just 24 hours to handover, we're still miles off.
41:58My mind is like absolutely fried right now. I mean I'm feeling unhinged. A lot of stuff
42:06to be
42:10We just seem to be going slow by our standards going fast by any other build standards
42:15I don't know how we're gonna do this, but we have to and at what point do you say?
42:18I'm sorry. I failed work. We just can't deliver what I said we could because it was just too much in the end
42:24At least there's some good news
42:27Letters for the front of the building have been delivered. It looks amazing. Thank you darling
42:32So these pains are pretty special though, aren't they? They're very heavy. Yeah. Yeah, about 160 kg
42:41They are. Are they? Yeah. Think this one's gonna fit? If they don't fit it's quite nerve-racking
42:46Like I go for it. Yeah, go and go and lift it in. Let's see
42:51We don't have time to have another pain mate these are made to order so if it unfit it unfit
43:02We're good. Yeah
43:09Isn't that beautiful? Excellent. You can see why when Gabby designed this she wanted all the glass front on this side
43:21They got plants
43:24So let's get these out
43:25Ashes plants have arrived, but he and his local volunteers have just one day to create the entire garden
43:32We'll work all the way up to here. All right, sound good?
43:36I think it's the best way to do it. It's probably start at the back
43:41Finally get some plants in which is great and these are all edible plants. We've got fruit trees fruit bushes
43:49You can even put it on there
43:52I'm hoping for the rest of the community that they'll come and be able to enjoy this space. We love it. We know they'll love it
43:57Yes, it's making me happy
43:59I
44:01Inside some of the key elements are finally coming together
44:05It's amazing. It's a beautiful kitchen. It looks nice. It looks soft breakout rooms looking very lovely in there
44:11We're doing really well over here color is so important got giant highlighter pens around all the things of interest
44:17So this is fun. This is exciting. This is your sort of setting day
44:22We should just be polishing things what's stressing us us out here is we shouldn't be doing this today
44:27We've got so much to do we've got to be finished tonight at the moment
44:31I just feel like crying and shouting at the same time something that I know it's like
44:35Is there anything I can do or make happen that will help things happen?
44:38Yeah, stop in the piernas and let's go on
44:41Unbelievable
44:46You pick it up i'll put on it down every part of the build needs one last big push and we'll get one
44:53right in the end
44:55oh
44:57oh
44:59The end
45:00Rada and his team are about to find out if the bespoke cabinets they've built for gabby are the right fit it's intimidating
45:09This is crucial for this space
45:17It's always the finer details that really pull the build together
45:20So this is hair and beauty mode. Yeah, in there. Yeah
45:26So this will it'll light up and we've got a great mirror here
45:30And then all our beauty products and skincare products here. They're gonna love it. Yeah
45:37The entire gym still needs to be set up and tested
45:42Thinking spacing wise the bars in that corner would you say go here? Yeah. Yeah, we've got to get it done
45:48It's just gonna be it's gonna be a tight squeeze
45:51It's a fun way to exercise and we may it's outside and anyone can use it
45:55Maybe the arm and legs in this corner because it's a smaller one
46:01Love that yeah, and then last one last one. Yeah
46:06Last piece i'm thinking everyone needs to get involved and have a session this
46:10Yes
46:14You ready to test them out billy is billy's the face out of all of us so i'm guessing
46:21Oh, no, no, no, like one foot on here. Oh, sorry
46:26Oh, oh god, it keeps moving
46:30Where am I going well there yet children are gonna love it in like yeah, they are
46:34All right, yeah
46:38All right, yeah
46:42Let me up to the top and see how it's fitting
46:50So proud of everyone this building has got such a personality now and i i love that
47:04Hello lady hello hello how you doing mixture of excitement nervous
47:12What could you have done in a week with no building right you're gonna see your new home ready okay let's go oh
47:21When i first arrived in beverly there was nothing here
47:26All the youth club had was a gazebo on a windswept field
47:29The staff were doing all they could to provide support for kids in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country
47:38But with no place to call home they were on the verge of having to stop for good
47:47But in just over a week we've done the seemingly impossible and built a brand new youth center from scratch
47:55The main hub is a relaxing warm and safe space and can be used for anything from arts and crafts to discos and parties
48:03And the new state-of-the-art kitchen means the centers no longer relying on takeaways
48:09And healthy meals can be rustled up any time of day
48:15The toilets are fully accessible and stocked with essentials
48:19And there's a calming breakout room to help when children are at their lowest
48:29Outside we've created a kitchen garden complete with pizza oven so the kids can grow and cook their own food
48:36And an outdoor gym to help them stay fit and well
48:40Despite the countless challenges we faced along the way
48:44I hope you've created a space where local young people can flourish and joe fiona and chloe can continue doing their amazing work into the future
48:55Oh my god
48:58I cannot believe it
49:01They're just so big
49:03This is what I always wanted
49:06What we'd you just want
49:08I know the kids have it
49:19What's that?
49:20It's an outdoor gym
49:22My god
49:25Fruit and veg garden
49:26Really?
49:27Blackcurrant's on the right
49:28There's rhubarb, there's gooseberries
49:30They're making crumbles
49:31Yeah
49:32That's fantastic
49:34Ready to see some more?
49:40In you go
49:44Oh my god
49:47I just I can't believe it
49:49Oh my god
49:50You alright Fiona?
50:00The kid
50:04Oh my god
50:09He's just amazing
50:11You can fold the stage away and you have just a big open space
50:15To be able to do dance classes your yoga class you don't have to have the stage out
50:19And the colours are really calming
50:22Gabby very much wanted to
50:24After hearing so much about a safe space and about like sometimes the safe space isn't at home
50:29Yeah
50:29That this should feel also like a home
50:32I can't breathe I can't believe it
50:35Oh my gosh
50:38That is beautiful
50:38Commercial quality oven so that you could actually
50:40Uh produce loads of food huge fridge
50:44You could run a breakfast club here for the kids that aren't getting food before they go to school
50:47Yeah and it's school holidays it's weekends uh it's evenings this is just going to be such a lifeline for them
50:55How did this happen?
50:58Can I have a minute?
51:00Sweet of course you can have a minute absolutely you can have a minute
51:03It's amazing
51:07It's just beyond anything that we could have imagined
51:10Whilst you've got an amazing area here to play in i'm also aware about sometimes just being
51:15Overwhelmed by everything and needing a space to go and be quiet or be separate so we created this breakout room
51:25It's gorgeous
51:27I think sometimes you know if someone comes and they're not having a good time it'll be a good place
51:32To sit and have the conversations
51:34Yeah
51:38Ready
51:40Out this way please
51:42The other big thing was
51:44The toilets
51:46What?
51:47Wow
51:49That is bloody beautiful isn't it
51:52The hygiene means such a lot
51:54Some girls haven't been going to school
51:56Because they can't afford
51:57Yeah
51:58Yeah
51:58The basics
51:58Yeah
52:00Yeah
52:02So
52:04Did we miss anything?
52:06It's beyond isn't it
52:07Yeah
52:08So much hope it's unbelievable
52:11You
52:12Listened
52:13The first few years of my life were in an estate like this
52:34Yeah
52:35Yeah
52:37And the trouble is it's represented so badly
52:40Whenever it's featured about what's bad about places like this
52:45But we've just spent a week working with people to show what's good about places like this
52:49Jeez
52:56It's massive what you what you do
52:58So we had to give you the tools to do it
53:01And more than that we had to give you something beautiful
53:03Yeah
53:04So that when people walk in here they know that people do care
53:06There's like such an important message
53:09Yeah
53:11Right
53:11We need to let the kids see it
53:16Look at his little smiling faces wait till they see what's in there
53:19Are you ready for this?
53:22It's a push
53:25Oh my god
53:32Look at this
53:39It is just amazing
53:41We can do some makeup lessons
53:47No
53:47It's even
53:49I definitely should respect it
53:51There's a full-on like bridge in them
54:03What do you reckon?
54:04What do you think?
54:05I love it
54:06Do you?
54:06Yeah
54:07Marks out of ten
54:09Two billion
54:11We like to go into the gym area
54:13There's a gym?
54:14Oh my god
54:15Oh my god
54:15I love it
54:17I'm going straight
54:22Using your clothes
54:23Oh what?
54:26Never been able to make pizza before
54:28And now we can
54:29Of course none of this could have been achieved
54:39Without our amazing team of trade suppliers and volunteers
54:44Our gladiators
54:47And our gladiators
54:49And our gladiators
54:50We have, because we know we've had, we have
54:51We have, because we know we've had, we have
54:54We have
54:54The people that actually took part in building this thing for you
55:21You've built a future for us and a legacy
55:26Yeah, you're going to change lives, this is unbelievable
55:29Every child deserves a chance and I can just see that you're all here to try and make that difference
55:34Thank you so much
55:35I just want to say thank you on behalf of all the young people
55:41This was all I ever wanted when I was younger
55:45And now that we've got it for all the young people that we work with
55:50Now we can help them
55:51From having probably the crappest youth club set up
55:59We, I think, have got the best in the country
56:03Bloody hell, you have knocked it out of the park
56:06That is insane
56:08Thank you so much
56:11It's beautiful
56:12Absolutely stunning
56:14It's like spider woman over here
56:23So this is good for your arms, you can get really strong
56:26We both went to youth club, so how much it's impacted us
56:31Thinking of how much it's going to impact other people
56:33So their situation is just insane and it's so amazing to be a part of it
56:37I sat there that night watching the kids eating pizza and chips under a gazebo in the rain
56:44I thought this reminds me of where I grew up
56:46Those places are often overlooked
56:49People who live there think people don't care
56:51So we had to build here, I couldn't walk away from it
56:56It's too personal
56:59There are kids here that could do amazing things if someone believes in them
57:04So this lot came along and built a safe space
57:06And that's the very least children should have, isn't it?
57:09Something to eat and a safe space to be
57:12So come on, so come on, get it on
57:17I don't know what you're waiting for
57:19Your time is coming, don't be late
57:22Hey, hey, so come on
57:25If you or someone you know needs help from the DIY SOS team
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57:37A daring team of celebrities are ready
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57:58Next year on BBC One, from a log fire to being fired
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58:07So come on, get it on
58:10I don't know what you're waiting for
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