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We want to build a quality Community Centre as a resource for the local area.
The Centre we are committed to erecting will possess a worship centre, early years provision, kitchen, dining area, meeting rooms and an activities hall.
Our Objectives
- Empowering people to empower themselves
- Providing necessary, well planned and delivered services
- Building friendship and trust with the people we work with
- Broadening our, and other's horizons and experiences
- Signposting people to appropriate agencies
- Networking and development work
What we currently provide
- An OFSTED-approved daily Sunshine Early Years Centre, offering childcare provision for four hours each weekday from 08:45 to 12:45pm. This is a church-based charitable business providing an essential service, in constant demand.
- Uniformed and other youth and children's activities within the three uniting churches, comprising some 190 local children
- Work with the over-60s which includes provision of luncheon clubs, coffee mornings, craftwork, keep-fir through dancing.
The Needs
- A growing need for wrap around childcare in th area for working parents with small children
- An urgent demand for a breakfast club and a 'walking bus' service to and from school for their pupils
- Tameside Youth Services are keen to develop more targetted youth activities in this area on various evenings in the week
- More activities and provision for the elderly
Meeting the Needs
In building partnerships with local agencies, we will utilise the new Centre to:
- Extend our provision of luncheon clubs, coffee mornings, dances and craftwork activities
- Run fitness courses for the elderly, including; aerobics, yoga, rambling and dancing
- Encourage the formation of a variety of interest and hobby clubs from art to angling, reading clubs to history and storytelling - depending on demand
- Promote ICT as a means of learning and extending social contact via email, the internet and related media
- Enhance contact with parents and young people to build relevant services and programmes to support families and households
- Work with young people and involve them in activities to foster cohesion among and between generations
- Develop mentoring projects between the generations to support and encourage self-confidence and skills-building among young people
- Run a Breakfast Club, a Walking Bus service and increase the capacity of the Sunshine Early Years Club to offer more hours and places
- Develop carers and toddlers work as a means of contact and support
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