Our aim, as a charity, is to offer services and facilities which meet the needs of the inhabitants of Bishop’s Cleeve. We have three charitable objectives.
These are:
1.
To support the provision of Christian Education:
we make our premises available for hire to Christian organisations, such as St Michael & All Angels
Church, enabling a range of educational and recreational activities for children, young people and adults to be delivered. These include parent & toddler groups, children’s groups and youth groups.
2. To provide facilities for recreational activities: we take bookings to use our premises from many varied community groups and individuals. Typical activities include flourishing parent and toddler groups, yoga, chess club, Brownies, birthday parties, Pilates, craft, table tennis, ballet classes, baby massage, piano lessons, U3A, amateur dramatics, community entertainments and socials.
3. To offer support to those most in need
in Bishop’s Cleeve, who may be disadvantaged, vulnerable or isolated: we place emphasis on children and families experiencing difficulties and the elderly members of our community who may be alone and feel isolated. We work in conjunction with other local agencies where appropriate and undertake activities such as running a Foodbank
for families in crisis, events targeting the elderly housebound and supporting the bereaved. We are have recently started offering free English lessons to Ukrainians living in the local community, in partnership with Cheltenham Volunteer Teachers.