Helping children to read for pleasure gives them enormous advantages in the future
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Some of Doorstep Library’s group of volunteers DOORSTEP LIBRARY – Helping children to read for pleasure gives them enormous advantages in the future. Weaving their way through the sprawling walkways, carrying rucksacks and little plastic stools, Jill and Allyson are regular fixtures on this Hammersmith housing estate. They have been…
Grove Neighbourhood Centre: Kim Benson
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He has worked as a civil servant in the Department of Trade & Industry and been a menswear salesman at Liberty. But in recent months, Kim Benson is bringing his years of expertise to bear in helping to run the Grove Neighbourhood Centre (GNC). For five years he volunteered at…
GNC Manager Theresa Tobin: ‘We are always looking for volunteer cooks’
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Q. What does the centre offer? We have lots of classes: Life Art on Monday afternoons, Social Dancing on Tuesday evenings, Keep Fit for Over 50’s on a Wednesday morning, a Toddler Group on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings. There are Pilates and Yoga classes and support groups plus many…