STONEGROVE COMMUNITY TRUST
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Mission Statement
Vision Our vision is to be the facilitator of one community within the Stonegrove Estate. A community that works and plays together, for the betterment of ourselves and the local area. Mission Our overall organisational mission has two strands, as follows: 1) The provision of a church and community centre available and attractive to the local community, and particularly to the following two groups: a) All residents from the ‘area of benefit’ b) Local residents facing disadvantage, such as through age, disability, or particular social or economic circumstance. 2) The provision of services and activities, working towards the following aims: a) Improvement in resident’s socio-economic position. b) Education, skills, training, particularly around employment, business skills and helping to create financial self-sufficiency. c) Promotion and improvement of public safety and the prevention of crime. d) Promotion and improvement of public health and wellbeing. We will take a flexible approach to achieving the above, using our significant physical assets for the benefit of the local community, and building on the many strengths and assets within our community and local area.
About This Cause
We operate the OneStonegrove centre on the Stonegrove/Edgware Green estate in Edgware (HA8 8BN). We run a thriving and successful community centre from these premises, which attracts over 72,000 attendances per year. We provide a very wide range of activities and services, tailored to meet the needs of the local diverse community. Our centre is shared with a CofE church and a 50 place nursery, who we often also work with on specific projects. Up until 2019 most of the activities in our centre were led by external organisations, whilst we worked to make the centre itself financially sustainable. In 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic we pivoted to become a food and essentials hub, becoming possibly the largest charity led hub of this kind in the borough throughout much of the pandemic. Since reopening the centre in 2021, we have focused strongly on the development of our own activities and services, including the following: 1) Launched a new youth club for young people aged 8-16yrs old, partnering with FUSE Youth. Now running four sessions per week, plus school holiday projects. 2) Developing a Play work/Loose parts project for ages 4-7yrs old, to start January 2022. 3) Older people’s project which currently supports lower numbers of particularly vulnerable and in-need older people, who we cannot refer or find support for elsewhere. Plan is to develop this into a larger open-access project from Summer/Autumn 2022. 4) Working towards our Zero net carbon target for December 2022. Main priority currently is gaining the funding for an 82Kwp solar panel array on the roof of our centre. We believe this will be the largest installation of it’s kind on a community centre roof in London. 5) Further developing our practices on all areas of inclusion and diversity. This includes an access audit to improve disabled access, plus training on disabilities (all types), Dementia, anti racism, unconscious bias and more. 6) Developing the community centre itself, creating every better facilities both for community usage, and also to continue to develop the levels of hire income to cross subsidise our charitable work. As well as the above we pride ourselves on looking outwards from our charity and our immediate area. We partner with many other Barnet-based organisations and individuals, and we participate in various forums and groups to advocate for the VCS sector and the various communities that call Barnet home.