Castelnau Centre Project (CCP) is a small charity helping to develop resources on the Castelnau estate for the whole community. We are based at the Castelnau Community Centre and have full responsibility for the management and programming of the building.

The estate comprises over 800 households and suffers from being an isolated pocket of deprivation within an affluent area. It is isolated in terms of services for residents and has consistently varying statistics in comparison to both the Borough as a whole and nationally.

Educational achievement, for example, and life expectancy are lower in the area whereas unemployment, long term illness, number of lone parents, crime and anti-social behavioural incidents are all higher than the national or Borough average.

All of these things are reasons why the Castelnau area needs a project like CCP whose job it is to tackle these things and try to make some improvements for the people who live here.

CCP has a team of ten people whose job it is to maintain and sustain the Community Centre as a base for our work and to develop the programme within the Centre to ensure it reaches those who need it most. From babies to older people CCP is attempting to plug gaps identified by the residents.

Over the last four years the project has grown enormously, as has our programme, but there is always more to do and CCP will attempt to do it.

Further Info...

If you would like further information about CCP by email, please use the following link or copy and paste the address into your email TO: box.

info@castelnaucentreproject.co.uk

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Holy Trinity Church

CCP’s relationship with Holy Trinity Church is two-fold; firstly it owns the community centre so it has a vested interest in work that goes on there.

Secondly, as it is geographically the closest church to the estate it therefore serves many of the residents.

Holy Trinity has a deep commitment to community development and in recent years have been developing their own additional activities to compliment the ones already on offer as they recognise the need for greater access for local people.

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Community Partners

Lowther School

As our immediate neighbour and the only school sitting directly on the estate it makes absolute sense for CCP to be working directly with Lowther Primary School.

Although not all primary aged children go to Lowther, many do and the school has a fantastic relationship with their parents and really nurtures their pupils through the first half of their education.

Through the Extended Schools agenda and now the Children’s Centre, CCP have been very fortunate in being able to further our community development through the support of the school and work with them to make the delivery to both children and parents as robust as it could be.

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Richmond Housing Partnership

As the primary landlord for social housing on the estate, RHP work very closely with CCP in ensuring they can help develop services for their residents.

As well as receiving funding from RHP, the Project works very closely with the community development team at RHP and over the last few years have together created a number of ways to feed into community development being carried out across the whole Borough.

This allows all agencies in the Borough to make sure they not only share ideas for projects, but record and evaluate our work in similar ways, so that we can get a clear picture of the impact of this work across the whole Borough.

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