Disabled access to the community cafe and gym.

Aim

To refurbish SADACCA's community cafe and gym, making it a safe space for physically disabled members of our community to use post-COVID.

About us

SADACCA The organization emerged from the West Indies Association in early 1955 and was formally constituted and became, as is commonly known throughout the city, as SADACCA (Sheffield and District African Caribbean Community Association) based at 48 Wicker Sheffield in 1986. This was the culmination of years of work from a dedicated first generation of African and Caribbean members of the community, who saw a need to meet the social, family and community needs of the African and Caribbean community at the time. Over the years the organization built up a reputation of being a multi-use space, inclusive and imbedded in the memories of many generations of people of growing up in Sheffield over the decades. In 2015 the current directors at huge personal and financial risk to themselves took on the responsibility to gift back SADACCA to the community and save it from closure. It was agreed that when they took over, initially they would need to stabilise the organization, which was undertook in the first 4 years up to and including 2019 and currently are transitioning into a period of regrowth. Current services include Men’s and Women’s groups, Day care for the elderly, Studio, Bar, hair dressers, venue space and office space.

The project

The funds will be used to refurbish SADACCA's community cafe and gym which is open to all members of the community. Currently, the disabled toilet and lift are out of order which means people with mobility issues are unable to access these services. By repairing these facilities we will be able to welcome disabled members of the community to use the cafe and gym.

This project successfully funded on 16th June 2021