Greenbank Community Hub

On Friday 7^th June the Greenbank Community Hub will be opening.

This is the culmination of over a year’s hard work for the Neighbourhood Team with support from teams across the Trust and a range of external partners to convert an empty shop (Number 22, Greenbank Lane, Greenbank, Northwich, CW8 1JQ) into a community venue with the aims of:

· Addressing Anti-Social Behaviour outside the shops on Greenbank by providing diversionary activities for children and young people from a Community Hub on-site.

· Providing activities/workshops/training sessions to be delivered from the Hub giving individuals the support to build their capacity to achieve and also to provide education to help reduce anti-social behaviour and environmental crime.

· Increasing community cohesion by setting up a Residents Steering Group to co-ordinate activities and utilising the skills and experience of residents to get involved in delivering sessions themselves plus helping to develop an increased sense of pride and ownership and address the area’s poor reputation.

· Increasing satisfaction with the Trust that residents views are taken into account.

· Partner organisations utilising the Hub to deliver outreach sessions in the heart of the Greenbank community, providing an opportunity to work face to face with customers who they are currently finding it difficult to engage and to work towards expanding residents’ horizons and capacity to access services and activities away from the estate.

On Friday 7^th June the Hub will be open from 10am – 5pm and everyone is welcome to drop in and see the transformation of the venue, get a glimpse of the great work upgrading the shop fronts, meet partners who will be utilising the Hub to deliver activities and services, meet residents and see the range of activities they will be able to get involved in.

Thank you once again to everyone who has helped us get to this point!

For more info contact Emma Gilpin on 01606 813410.