Listing Description
Aspiring Communities Together (ACT), tackle persistent social and economic disadvantages and educational underachievement in the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) community across Sheffield, mainly focusing on the deprived neighbourhood of Fir Vale and Burngreave.
Services include:
- Healthy Living Centre: featuring a membership or pay as you go gym, classes, café lounge and alternative therapies.
- Adult education classes: community training provider delivering a range of ESOL and basic skills courses.
- Work with young people :Working with young BME ho have become disengaged from school, repeatedly excluded or have become involved in anti-social behaviour in the Burngreave/Fir Vale area. ACT offer educational and pastoral activities designed to boost a young person’s self esteem and skills which can also include working with families. Referral’s can be through local schools, agencies or through the family or young person concerned.
- Older people project: A partnership with the Muslim Elders Support Project (MESP). Older people can be supported in accessing services, resources and facilities they need to maintain their independence and quality of life.
- Arabic Language School: a service which ensures young people develop essential
- Fir Vale Preschool: a 38 place OFSTED registered setting which provides childcare for working parents or parents who access training.
