Co-op Warm Spaces Funding Boost has provided £500 of match funding
Pelton Community Centre Warm Spaces
Chester-le-Street, County Durham, United Kingdom
Aim
We would love to provide a warm, welcoming room, with a cuppa and some activities, for anyone who needs it, whenever they need it!
We are a charity, who have been open for nearly 50 years and continue to help improve the lives of those in and around our area in whatever way they need. We provide activities to all ages, provide support groups, host events, offer space for charities and business, open our community gym 6 days a week and host many youth sessions within our purpose built youth facility.
Community impact
We open our doors to anyone who feels they would benefit from walking into our centre. Our Baby and Toddler sessions run three times a week, we offer sports and social activities throughout the week for all ages, such as Gentle Circuits for the over 50's and Metafit for those more able. We offer Craft Together on a Thursday afternoon, and Archery in our Main Hall. We have services such as Credit Union, NHS Speech and Language, and then we host coffee mornings and events for all to enjoy, like Party Bingo, Children's Parties and more.
These all benefit our community in one way or another, whether it be to improve mental health and wellbeing, health and fitness, tackle social isolation, improve knowledge, engage with others and much more. We often see one community member come in the building 3 or 4 times a week for various things, and we hear how much our building and facilities are appreciated on a daily basis.
Why are we crowdfunding?
We are a charity and have to raise funds to do everything in our building. We hire rooms, charge for facilities and activities but this does not cover the high costs (increasing by more than 25% shortly) we have to cover to open 7 days a week, with 13 staff. Therefore we rely on funding quite heavily, and hope this can then enable us to reduce (or remove completely) the cost for the things we do for the community. We would love to open our doors for more Warm Spaces onward and increase our availability.
How we’ll spend the money raised
The funding will support with Room Hire for the session (covering utility bills and staff etc.) refreshments and snacks for all to enjoy, warm soup, cuppas, healthy snacks, as well as provision such as craft activities, games and newspapers.
This project successfully funded on 9th March 2023