FCA & PSR

The Clockhouse Community Centre has been an active Community Centre in the Woolwich Riverside Ward for many years. It is a central hub of the local community providing affordable hall and room hires for leisure, sports and arts activities for 60 regular affiliated community groups and venues for training, meetings and private functions. With a newly refurbished Cafe open 4 days a week. We run a weekly Foodbank open to all with no registration. We run an Advice Hub offering support and help with Welfare benefits, debt management, Housing Advice, Immigration and Domestic abuse.

The charity aims to provide support to people in Woolwich who are in financial, mental and/or physical difficulty through a number of on site services such as a food bank, counselling and provision of hygiene care. the charity provides an area where community members can gather without conflict or judgement.

The Leytonstone Community Fridge is a Transition Leytonstone project, working in partnership with The Community Fridge Network. We are working to reduce food waste at a local level by collecting food donations from charities, food businesses and individuals, making the food available to the public without discrimination, The Fridge, which is situated outside the Leytonstone Methodist Church, is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, from 12 noon until the food runs out. It gets very busy, especially during the first half hour, and is manned entirely by volunteers. We need a steady stream of new stall volunteers and driver volunteers, as people do have other things in their lives! That said, we are a happy community of food waste warriors, who love nothing better than saving food from landfill and composting. A very recent 3-monthly audit shows that we saved two and a half tonnes from landfill between February and April 2019. We are currently fundraising for solar panels to power our 2nd backup fridge and a freezer in our food storage garage.