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About
the Community Centre
When the Estate of
Hangleton was built in the mid 50's and 60's the lack of lesiure
facilities and public spaces was identified as an early issue by
residents. A group of local residents came togethe and established
the Hangleton Community Association. Its first two aims were to
establish a play park for children and young people and a longer
term aim of having a community centre in the area available for
local people to take part in activities.
In
1988 residents got an early Christnmas present when the community
centre finally opened its doors after a lot of campaigning and consultation
with local people. The centre immediately began bringing people
form the community together and over time became home to community
and voluntary groups in Hangleton. The centres groups provided much
needed service to the community including child care and activities
for young people, while the newly established Hangleton Project
worked with adults in organising festivals, events and groups for
older people
The
HCA worked towards providing social events including regular disco's,
coffee mornings, jumble sales and ensuring that the community centre
was a comfortable and safe place for activities to happen in. As
more and more community groups started providing services and activities,
the HCA worked on expanding the centre, which led to more growth
in community groups and activities and so the HCA's main focus became
the building
The
Community Centre remains a busy place and the Focus of the HCA remains
the building, its a hard task keeping track of groups. The HCA provide
support in ensuring groups have proper risk assesments, are accessing
funding and ensure that they are kept informed of changes within
the centre.
the HCa also provide support and information to residents on where
they can go to accerss help and support in helping to solve the
issues effecting them and their part of the community. The HCA also
helps new reisdents to settle in and we are often the first point
of contact for anybody wanting information about the local area
as well as
This
website has been introduced to make sure residents can get hold
of information quickly and easily, as well as expand what information
we have here at the centre. We know its not always convenient to
drop by during office hours so hopefully by providing it here everyone
benefits.
However for those of you that can you can drop by the office between
9 and 5:30 to access information and find out about whats happening
around the centre.
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