Piispala Youth Centre

Piispala is a national Youth Centre supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture. Piispala was founded in 1982 and is the biggest of the nine Youth Centres in Finland. Piispala is located in the rural part of Central Finland by the beautiful Lake Kivijärvi. Piispala has accommodation for over 400 persons and it is an amazing place to organise camps for children and youth and seminars, trainings and e.g. family holidays. One of the main goals of the centre is to maintain the development of the local, national and international youth work and to serve as a multi-sided centre of sport activities and education. Piispala has years of experience in youth work, social youth work and international youth work. In addition Piispala has conducted environmentally based youth work and education for decades. The centre is well-equipped for practising various kinds of sports and handcrafts. In all of Piispala’s activities the emphasis is on holistic wellbeing and wellbeing is one of the key elements that Piispala promotes. Piispala runs several projects that support young people with fewer opportunities or young people in NEET situation. The projects offer help to support young people e.g. with their overall wellbeing and employment.