A local charity is celebrating receiving funding to help create a new IT suite.
The Hub of Wishes, located at Silverdale Place in Newton Aycliffe is a day service provider that supports adults over 18 years of age who have mental health issues.
At their Hub of Wishes community building the charity delivers a range of activities, which helps promote social inclusion and allows their service users to build friendships. Currently, the charity runs an art therapy group, walking group, lunch club, bingo, day trips, healthy living/eating courses, gardening and alternative therapy sessions. All these activities allow the centre users to improve their basic skills and build confidence to assist them in their recovery.
The funding secured through Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership (GAMP) via the Neighbourhood Budget allocations of County Councillors Eddy Adam and Kate Hopper, will allow the organisation to purchase new PCs and offer free training courses to their clients.
Vicki Lawrence, from the Hub of Wishes; said: “The funding will allow us to offer our service users and wider community better facilities by replacing the centre’s current PCs that have become unusable, because of their age”.
The new equipment will also benefit other organisations who use the centre, for example; Cornforth Partnership deliver a job club from the centre (for the wider community) and the new PCs will be used by them to help with job searches and preparing CVs etc.
