Seren in the Community will build upon the success of our Friends of Splott Play Centre group and acquire the buildings of Splott and Adamsdown Play Centres through Community Asset Transfer.
We will be working with the community in the Splott, Tremorfa and Adamsdown areas who are significantly deprived and have a high proportion of Black and Ethnic minority residents, as well as a high proportion of families in low income households.
Our aims are as follows:
To develop thriving community buildings that are sustainable in the long term.
To support the development of volunteers; they are encouraged and supported to deliver activities and services from the community buildings and in the wider community.
To make ourselves sustainable by developing a trading arm that will manage room bookings, birthday parties and a community café from the community hub.
To increase opportunities for parents, adults and families to return to work.
To provide opportunities for children to thrive, learn and play.
To improve the health of local children and families.
To increase participation in mainstream learning for children, parents and families.
To offer opportunities to children and young people who are excluded from education whilst other alternatives are being sought.
Seren in the Community will develop thriving community buildings that are sustainable in the long term by tendering for the acquisition of buildings from Cardiff Council and other organisations looking to dispose of assets within the STAR area. We will tender for service delivery locally making sure it benefits the communities we serve focussing on our primary customers, parents, children and families.
Seren in the Community will support the development of volunteers, they are encouraged and supported to deliver activities and services from the community buildings and in the wider community.
We will make ourselves sustainable by developing a trading arm that will manage room bookings, birthday parties and a community café from the community hub.
We will increase opportunities for parents, adults and families to return to work. We will offer low cost nursery spaces that offer a wraparound provision feeding into 3 local primary schools and deliver a wraparound after school club picking up from 4 primary schools locally. We will link with other Welsh Government Initiatives such as Flying Start, Families First and Communities First to make sure parents are supported and linked in to appropriate services. We will work with Communities First to develop appropriate training, volunteering opportunities and work placements within the building and the surrounding community. We will offer Jobs Growth Wales opportunities where appropriate, committing to at least one per year as funding allows.
We will provide opportunities for children to thrive, learn and play. We will offer free open access homework clubs on a daily basis during term times and holidays,work with partner organisations to develop appropriate holiday provision, develop opportunities for social interaction and integration and build afterschool clubs that meet the needs of the community
We will improve the health of local children and families. Offer breakfast club and a healthy meal during all school holidays, provide a healthy meal every evening for those accessing after school clubs and provide meals for families as required. We will link with the foodbank to run regular community meals to make sure we can identify those experiencing food poverty and link them to appropriate services for support. We will take on the running of the community garden at the hub to encourage people to grow their own, we will deliver cookery sessions and make sure families are able to cook on a budget providing healthy options.
We will increase participation in mainstream learning for children, parents and families. We will develop a training programme that can run from the centres working alongside partners in education, Communities First, schools and colleges. We will make sure we act as a conduit between vulnerable children, families and parents and support them back into education settings. We will offer opportunities to children and young people who are excluded from education whilst other alternatives are being sought. We will work with Eastmoors Youth Centre and Willows High School to make sure all young people have rights to education. We will explore running a temporary provision offering NVQ’s whilst building links with young people and the local secondary school.
We will work with partners in Cardiff Council, Save the Children and EMTAS to build an appropriate model for Gypsy and traveller education in the South East of Cardiff. We will continue to deliver youth forums and make sure young people are linked in with key services.
