They spilt dangerously on to the busy road, holding up double-decker buses and other traffic and ran and walked noisily in the middle of nearby streets.

These are the latest claims by Loving Dalston readers about youngsters going to dances at St Matthias’s. The latest “linkup”, as the events are termed, resulted in an apparently unsupervised throng of young people reluctant to budge for passers-by.

Two Muslim women with children and babies were unable to use the pavement at the club and had to ask drinkers outside a nearby pub for an alternative route to the nearest bus stop.

Late that night teenagers ran down a nearby street, blocking its full width. Early the next morning some were running up and down the street and congregating in the middle of junctions. Adults eventually appeared, publicly and loudly telling the youngsters: “No fighting!” The pleas seemed to work.

An officer told Loving Dalston: “I will bring this to the attention of the location manager, and ask that he addresses this with parties hiring the venue.”

Mohammed Alam, of St Matthias Youth Club, told Loving Dalston that the club’s aim was to get “the kids off the streets and into a safe and controlled environment where they can socialise”.

Linked up was, he said, a not-for-profit organisation that occasionally hired the club. The police “are aware each time Linked up have an event at our premises”.

Alam added: “There is no alcohol involved at all these events and they always end by 10.30pm.”

The club is a charity, founded in 1968 by St Matthias’s church in Stoke Newington and, it says on its website, relaunched as a sports academy in early 2011. A company called Funday Entertainment offers the club for hire.

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* St Matthias Youth Club, 101 Dalston Lane E8 1NH (020 7254 9144) 

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