The Anchor Club is a youth organization sponsored by Pilot International. In 1952 Pilot International officially adopted, as an international project, the sponsorship of Anchor Clubs. Anchor Club is a nonprofit organization that works along side their sponsoring Pilot Club on projects focusing on brain disorders. This includes such activities as the Alzheimer's Memory Walk and the Very Special Arts Program. Anchor was initially open to girls in high school and then was later opened up to both boys and girls in grades seven through twelve.
The Coalfield Anchor Club was begun in 1990 by the Pilot Club of Anderson County. The club has since expanded it's program to include seventh and eighth graders at the Petros - Joyner School. The Club went on to make efforts towards the formation of a Tennessee Anchor District, win Anchor Club of the Year in 1993, 1997 and 1998 on the State level, second runner up in the 1997 International Anchor Club of the Year competition and placed as first runner up in the International Anchor Club of the Year competition for 1998.
The Objectives of Anchor Club are: