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Eastside Community Trust joins the Better Business network
Eastside Community Trust, a charity dedicated to supporting local communities in Easton and Lawrence Hill, is proud to announce its membership in Bristol24/7’s Better Business Network.
Eastside Community Trust is a place of possibility – a community-focused organisation based in Easton and serving communities in Easton and Lawrence Hill.
As a charity, it provides people of all ages with places and ways to connect and is passionate about its community, putting local people in control. It informs and inspires action in Easton and Lawrence Hill to create a place of possibility for everyone.
The charity runs Easton Community Centre, a busy centre open to the public six days a week and available for private hire seven days a week.
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The centre hosts a programme of regular and ad-hoc community activities and is home to Raised in Easton nursery, BCfm radio, Somali Kitchen, and Bristol Somali Youth Voice.
Eastside also runs Felix Road Adventure Playground six days a week, with private sessions outside of those opening hours. The playground has been at the heart of the community since 1972, giving children the freedom to play and be themselves. The playground has a community kitchen, which serves daily home-cooked meals and hosts a Raised in Bristol nursery on-site.
Alongside these two vital community spaces, Eastside delivers a wide-ranging communications programme to share information, inspire, and celebrate the community. This includes a fortnightly e-bulletin, a website, social media, a quarterly printed magazine delivered to 14,000 households, and 30 community notice boards.
The charity runs Easton Community Centre, a busy centre open to the public six days a week and available for private hire seven days a week
The organisation supports community action through projects run by and with local people. These include family and wellbeing activities in their spaces, a community climate action programme, a place-making project, food and cooking projects, and an annual programme of community meetings and events.
More information about programmes and venue hire, visit www.eastsidecommunitytrust.org.uk
All photos: Evoke
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