Quinborne Update July 2024

Hello all, we hope you are well, and that the England result isn’t depressing you too much … remember it’s only 2 years until the World Cup.

Firstly, we have an exciting announcement regarding Quinborne, The National lottery and the next 5 years.

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded funding through The National Lottery Community Fund to run subsidised classes at Quinborne for the next 5 years.

What this means for you is you will be able to attend both social and educational classes at a heavily reduced rate, the best thing is that any materials that you may need will be provided at no extra cost.

No class will cost more than £5.00 and there will be no limit as to how many you can join.

There will be both daytime and evening classes running, and all sessions will include a drink at no additional cost.

We will be trialling classes throughout the summer with the main program starting w/c Monday 2nd September.

Classes will include but are not limited to; I.T training, Sewing & Knitting Classes, Art Classes, Bowls, ESOL, Table Tennis, Meditation & Pilates, Movie & Book Clubs.

We will also be running Back to Work and Advice Sessions, in conjunction with local businesses.

If there is a particular course, group or class that you would like to see run please come in and see us as it might be something that we can incorporate into our program.

We want these groups to be as inclusive as possible and available to the whole of the community so if your interested in attending, running or helping please contact us at the centre and we’ll be help you.

For more information on The National Lottery Clases please click here

On a separate note if you head over to our activities section or click here, you will see a detailed list of what activities we will be running at the centre on our return and what we are planning to run over the year.

We have also updated our trips for the year so if you head over to our calendar of events of click here you will find all the information that you need.

Something new we will be trying over the next few months is Facebook Marketplace and eBay.

As I’m sure you’re all aware we gladly accept donations of clothes, bric-a-brac, media, and household objects, as we are charity based these are all sold to help us to continue to run. However, from time-to-time we get donations that are simply too good to just sell at the centre and we feel we would benefit from showing them off to a wider audience, hence taking the step into online selling. Once we have everything setup and running, we will update the website and all our socials so you can keep a track of what we’re selling.

Finally, please remember If you are visiting Quinborne Community Centre or Quinton Library, you must put your car registration into one of the tablets located within these buildings.

Failure to do so will result in a £100 fine, payable to Creative Car Park, neither Quinborne nor Quinton Library have anything to do with administering these fines.

During the last 3 months parking on-site has been easier and most genuine users have commented on how nice it is to be able to visit and get a car parking space.

This system is not designed to catch anyone out and was only installed to allow genuine users more of a chance to park whilst visiting us.

If you are in doubt how to use the system, please come and ask a member of staff and we will be more than willing to help you.

Finally, we look forward to seeing you all soon, everyone at Quinborne.