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Update on our services
As you know, Community Links has much less money to run our services this year. We have had to make some difficult decisions, and undergo a significant restructure. We are pleased to have been able to keep most of our centres open, although at much reduced capacity, as follows:
10 Mar 2011
Our Services and Centres
• Advice at 105 Barking Road – Our advice service is still and will remain open. It will still be open on a first-come first-serve basis from 9.00am Monday – Thursday.
• Arc in the Park – we will still run play and youth work from Arc, but for fewer days each week
• Asta Community Centre – Asta’s open access play project will close at the end of March but the youth club will remain open 2 or 3 evenings a week
• Central Park – Central Park’s paid-for playscheme will remain open but its youth club will close at the end of July.
• Chandos East – We will continue running drop-in sessions from Chandos while we develop other services from there
• Newham City Farm – The Farm will remain open but the open access play project run from there will close at the end of March.
• Peabody playscheme at 105 Barking Road – this will continue as normal
• Play Sow & Grow – Nothing has changed at PSG, it still runs as normal
• Rokeby centre – the open access play project will close at the end of March but the youth club will remain open 3 evenings a week and the centre manager will continue running a wide range of community activities.
Additionally our sports team, family support team, community development projects, and NEETS project will remain. This is alongside our employment support services and Education Links our school, which are unaffected by these changes.
Centres closing
• Comyn’s Close – this centre will close from the end of March, and the Future Links project run from there relocated.
• Hudson’s Youth Club at the Squash Club will close at the end of July.
• Jack Cornwall Playscheme – this will close from the end of March
• Queen’s Terrace – the youth club based here will be closed.
We will continue campaigning and working to show the importance of this work and develop new projects and services to operate from our centres. As an urgent part of this we are looking at alternatives to the play schemes which have closed, perhaps involving more work with families.
For more information please contact your local centre manager or Community Links on 0207 473 2270 or .