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Ravensthorpe Community Centre opened its doors for the first
time on 6th May 2000, after many years of planning and development.
The Centre, at 24 Garden Street is at the heart of Ravensthorpe.
It lies just off the main Huddersfield Road leading into
Dewsbury Town Centre just 1½ miles away.
Ravensthorpe Community
Centre Ltd (RCCL) emerged as a direct response to local
needs and to address a number of these problems and issues,
which have been highlighted below; and are continuously
being raised since the inception of RCCL. The centre is
addressing these problems in a unique attempt to bring “community
regeneration” to life, to make it real and practical,
and above all a “meaningful” project for the
people of Ravensthorpe and the surrounding areas; who are
a focus of the project and the community it intends to serve.
Ravensthorpe Community Centre Ltd is striving to deliver
innovative and creative projects to improve information,
communication and empowerment to a deprived and disadvantaged
community.
Ravensthorpe Community Centre Ltd addresses the needs and
priorities of the local community groups and individuals
in the Ravensthorpe area such as;
• The long term
unemployed;
• Ethnic minority groups;
• Individuals who have disengaged from the learning
process;
• Those with poor literacy, numeracy and I.T.
skills;
• Single parents
• Those lacking adequate parenting skills;
• Young women whose involvement in decision
making processes has been neglected;
• Young people;
• Vulnerable elderly members of the community;
• Asylum seekers
• Community as a whole |
Since its opening the
centre and its projects have gone from strength to strength.
Local people have worked in partnership with the Public
sector aswell a Private, business, community and voluntary
sectors.
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