Essex Boys and Girls Clubs (EBGC) is a British charity working with young people in Essex and east London.
The club's patron is Jennifer Tolhurst, Lord-Lieutenant of Essex.
EBGC operates in Essex and the east London boroughs of Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Waltham Forest, Newham and Hackney.
[citation needed] As of December 2023, the charity works with 140 clubs and numbers 10,000 members.
[1] Set up in 1939 as the Essex Association of Boys Clubs, the organisation received its present name in 2006 to reflect the membership of its affiliated youth clubs.