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CHC World Cup Day Gladstone Park NW2 Friday 9th July 2010

The World Cup was still alive and well in Brent recently! An enterprising group of Brent youth set up their own “world cup” day – Local businesses VS the community, to encourage young people to become more involved in the community.

The teams met in Gladstone Park on Friday 9^th July to compete for a winner’s trophy with medals for the runners up.

The day was the initiative of CHC’s Youth Engagement Scheme (YES) – a young peoples’ project that aims to reconnect with disenfranchised youth through fun activities and sport. Brent Safer Neighbourhoods Team supported the day and competing teams included CHC, local residents and local businesses.

Trustees Wanted

CHC is changing the way services for vulnerable people and communities are designed and delivered. In order to lead us in these changes we are currently looking for new Trustees for our Board. New Trustees will be:

Energetic
Passionate
Proactive
Experienced in the voluntary sector
Strategic thinkers

If you fit the bill and can offer at least one day per month to this award-winning, ground-breaking charity email danny@chc-mail.org or telephone 020 8208 8591.

Bronze Award for Clean Up of Cricklewood

NorthWestTWO Residents' Association came third overall out of at least 231 events in 30 of London's Boroughs to win the Bronze Award for Brent in the Capital Clean Up Campaign for the recent "Clean Up of Cricklewood".

Carol Reeman (NorthWestTWO committee) and Danny Maher (CHC) who organised the Clean Up were joined by Anna-Marie Defontaine, Brent's Streetcare Ward Officer for Mapesbury together with Carol's son, Jack and Wotton Road resident William Bowden to receive the Bronze Award at City Hall this morning.

Various local residents associations, local businesses and CHC (Cricklewood Homeless Concern) are working together to make the Cricklewood area a vibrant and attractive place to live and work in. One way of doing this was their Street Clean Up event on Sunday 13^th June 2010 at 9pm where local people of all ages came together to clean the streets around Cricklewood Broadway.

Carol Reeman of NorthWestTWO Residents Association says 'we wanted to show that our community is proud of our area and that we are keen to ensure it is a lovely place to live in and to visit, that it is a cleaner greener shared space. We are delighted at the amount of local people who joined the Street Clean up on June 13^th and really appreciated the support from Brent Council, the Big Tidy Up, Capital Clean up and local businesses. The Clean Up was also a good opportunity to teach our children the importance of protecting and looking after our environment'.

The street Clean Up is one part of CIG's - Cricklewood Improvement Group- programme of events over the coming twelve months. CIG was set up in 2009 by local residents keen to create a Cricklewood Town Centre Management Group as a vehicle for positive and progressive change in the area. The initiative, led by Cricklewood Homeless Concern is further evidence of the ambition of local residents to continuously improve their community for the benefit of those that live there, for local businesses and for visitors. The project will be working with residents from Brent, Barnet and Camden to ensure that the Broadway is a place of opportunity, safety and welcome.

Danny Maher of Cricklewood Homeless Concern says 'we are delighted with the energy and enthusiasm of our local residents and proud that we have the vision and ambition to make our community something that we can be proud of. We want our children to grow up in a place of opportunity, safety and environmentally friendly'.

CHC

CHC is a place of change and opportunity for anyone in the community wanting to make positive choices regarding their lives. We are a community resource, with our centre and staff acting to help local residents achieve local goals. Our professional team of staff and volunteers are committed to making your visit to us a productive and positive experience.

Many of our customers will have long term problems which require support and we will work with them through their recovery. Other customers may just need some one-off advice or classes in various subjects,and may not stay with us for very long.

We aim to make a valuable difference to the lives of everyone who comes to us seeking training, advice or support. We work in partnership with our customers with both parties taking responsibility for ensuring a positive outcome. We are in the business of helping people to build their capacity to achieve their ambitions and supporting people in overcoming problems which are barriers to them achieving personal success.

Who is the Service for?

As a community centre our services are available to any resident in the borough of (and in some cases beyond) Brent. Our customers work with us for a whole variety of reasons. This can be anything from a local resident wanting to take a class in IT to a long term rough sleeper who needs accommodation.

Our main service programmes are: training & employability support, drug & alcohol programmes, housing advice & support. We do not have accommodation ourselves but work with a range of housing partners such as housing associations and private sector landlords to whom we can refer you to as appropriate;although we can not guarantee that you will find accommodation.

How can I access the services?

At CHC we use an appointment system ensuring that you spend less time waiting to be seen and can be confident that our staff will have adequate time to spend with you. You can telephone us or call in to make an appointment.

We actively discourage other agencies from referring customers to us without first checking that we can help. This is to make sure that the visit is not a waste of your valuable time. If an agency does refer you to us, please ask them to phone us first to make sure we are in a position to help you. Make sure you are given the name of the person you are being referred to as well as a time and date for your appointment with us.

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