As of October 2011 the Afasic Youth Project now operates from the Hainault Youth Centre in Huntsman Road, Hainault, and they have picked up yet another award:
Afasic Youth Project were delighted to be celebrated as a Highly Commended runner-up in the Hello Campaign Shine a Light Awards for Team of the Year at the finalists’ celebration hosted by Vanessa Feltz.
Project Manager Clare Davies-Jones and Co-ordinator Chi Doan received a certificate on behalf of the whole staff team which includes Speech and Language Therapist Shermeena Rabbi and Youth-worker Sagan Daniels, plus all our Management committee and our fantastic team of volunteers.
Shine a Light – a flagship event of the Hello campaign – was designed to honour individuals, teams, projects, communication friendly settings and communities that have demonstrated excellence in supporting the needs of all children and young people’s communication, including those with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN).
Well done to the Afasic Youth Project!Meanwhile one of the products of this excellent project was meeting with the Princess Royal in Ilford.
I only know this because I have a connection. I’ve no idea what has happened to all the other groups. Maybe Redbridge Council might tell us sometime?
STOP PRESS: I do now! Cllr Ian Bond responds in the comments below.
By September all of the groups that had agreements to use the Downshall Centre had been contacted by the Council with an offer of help to find suitable accommodation.
ReplyDeleteThe RDWWA will be based at the Frenford Club. RISK will be based at the Punjabi Centre. The Chess Academy will be able to continue at the Downshall Centre for the time being. DAWN was expected to move to the Cardinal Heenan Centre. Training 4 Transition was relocating to the Seven Kings Park depot. The Essex Muslim Community had been offered the Frenford Club. The Sangeet music group have left and the Council has not had any further contact with them. The Goodmayes Kumon learning group had not (as of Sept) responded to offers of help. The lunch club moved to a nearby local social club and the Social Services office accommodation is currently being moved. The Council's Youth Services have relocated to Wanstead Youth Club and Loxford Youth Club.
There were no other groups that had agreements to use the Downshall, and no others that may have used the centre on an ad hoc basis had at that time contacted the council to seek any help with finding alternative premises.
Apologies if there have been more recent developments not covered above
Cllr Ian Bond
Thanks Ian.
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