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Established in 1981, the Camden Chinese Community Centre is currently located on Tavistock Place. Our major revenue funders are Social Services, VSU and Nursery Education. We deliver the following projects:

• Elderly Programme (for promotion of social, nutritional and health welfare);
• Needs Assessment and Advocacy (in cooperation with social services and health authorities);
• Housebound Project (for domiciliary care of Chinese elderly and disabled);
• Advisory services (on welfare benefits, immigration, housing, domestic violence etc);
• the Bilingual Nursery Programme (preschool education of children under 5, the only one of its kind in London);
• the Youth and Millennium Volunteer programme and Community Development including work with Women’s and Voluntary groups.

Additionally we offer a wide range of community activities and house regular mini-surgeries by local opticians, dentists and healthcare practitioners. Our daily luncheon club for the Elderly serves at least 30 diners per day and overall the Centre serves 30,000 user visits per year averaging 600 visits per week. Our aim is to enable local people to access activities and services by providing a native language link between the vulnerable people and statutory service providers. We have over 1300 members of whom the majority are mainly older people, women, immigrants, preschool children and young people. Our funders recognise the quality and need for our Services and have actively encouraged our growth, as we are the only ethnic organisation that provides such a range of services. Our new Centre will enable us to continue to provide quality services for the community.

Activities

Women’s Group Various activities are organised regularly including health talks, day trips, cookery sessions, swimming classes, IT training course, and celebrations for example at Mid-Autumn festival, Chinese New Year, Easter.

ESOL Class Westminster Kingsway College provides two English classes at our Centre. Daily two-hourly sessions are arranged in the afternoons from Monday to Thursday. Two classes are held: one class for beginners and the other for the intermediate level. The English lessons can increase users’ confidence in speaking English and improve their communication with English speaking people in their daily life.

Volunteer Group Volunteer activities are helpful to our centre and simultaneously of benefit to our clients. Enabling them to gain a variety of experiences in the area of work they get involved in. They can also get training to help them with their volunteering e.g. “on-chair exercise course”, “ Certificate in acupressure first aid” and computer training.

Work Experience Scheme Our Centre offers work experience opportunities to local school students who spend one to two weeks’ placement.

Events

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