Learn Skills, Save Money and Celebrate

Aim

Bring people together; facilitate to learn skills, help save money, add to well-being, participate on social activities & celebrate

I am Feroze Syed (chairperson) 

My Team: Yunus Mangera, Belal Darr, Rizwan Darr, Chris Richardson, Aliya Hussain

The Aim and the Idea: 

We aim to achieve the following : 

  1. Achieving financial empowerment to build up well-being and economic security 

  2. Learning skills to be able to perform and improve quality of life 

  3. Understanding environment, it’s protection, and that it is linked with our well-being today and the safe-future of next generations 

  4. Attaining physical and mental fitness to gain self-confidence & peace of mind 

  5. Learning how to work with computer and using it to document and keep records of important matters

  6. Being independent and manage communications successfully

  7. Building relationships to increase mutual understanding and grow trust. 

We want to offer facilities on our site for engaging community members in -practical work, -Learning skills, pursuing personal development and participating in social activities with the aim to achieve the following outcomes by: 

  - Achieving financial empowerment to build up well-being and economic security 

  - Learning skills to be organised, be able to perform, produce and improve quality of life 

  - Understanding environment and it’s protection, and that it’s accomplishment is linked with our well-being today as well as the safe-future of next generations 

  - Attaining physical and mental fitness to gain self-confidence & have peace of mind 

  - Learning how to work with computer and using it to document and keep records of important matters of everyday life

  - Developing talent to be independent and manage communications successfully

  - Building relationships to increase mutual understanding and grow trust

  - Achieving Community-Cohesion and being part of it as a whole. 

Our volunteers and trustees have already delivered since 2015 projects for the benefit of the local community in Batley and beyond; and now we continue to develop our site, enhancing the facilities and carrying out our charity work under the newly formed CIO the Hamm-Damm Foundation (since 2016). The efforts undertaken by the volunteers and the beneficial results are well appreciated by the community, local MP and Councillors as well as the Kirklees Council to whom we owe many thanks for their help and ongoing support. our voluntary work is also well echoed in the local press. 

The Community Garden: 

School children's visit

This project successfully funded on 12th February 2023