The conveniences in Wyke Regis, near Weymouth, will be renovated over the coming weeks so that the Beaches youth group, which has been without a permanent home for seven years, can meet twice a week.
Geoff Petherick, lead on community safety at Weymouth and Portland Borough Council and chairman of the youth club, said he has been working to find a new home for the youth club since it had to move from a school in 2005.
Several previous attempts to re-house the club had failed due to cost and difficulty in finding a site acceptable to local residents.
As a result it has been running on an outreach basis, but Petherick says the prospect of opening the new drop-in centre will allow it to provide programmes on sexual health, drug misuse, healthy living and employment issues.
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