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Associations and Community Centres

Associations and Community Centres

Avalon Ripon Klub (ARK)

Location: Harrogate – Phone: E-mail: jerryjanderson@btinternet.com Description:
Description : A social club for adults with learning and/or physical disabilities in Ripon.

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Bilton Community Centre – Visit the website here – Location: 48 Bilton Ln, Harrogate HG1 3DU – Phone: 01423 560056
The Bilton Community Centre is a single storey, fully accessible building, having been fully adapted for the disabled and is on a bus route to/from the town centre and local area. Limited on-street car parking is available to clients. The Centre is primarily run for the people of the Bilton, Harrogate and the surrounding districts, as a venue for hire for individuals, clubs, agencies and organisations which provide activities of their own choosing, and opportunities and services to the community.

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Boroughbridge Community Care

Location: Boroughbridge – Phone: 01423 324504
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Chain Lane Community Centre  Location: 60 Chain Ln, Knaresborough HG5 0AS – Phone: 01423 795320

Description: Chain Lane Community Hub is an exciting community-based project based in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.  New life has come to this valuable community asset and, over the last year, the building has been completely redeveloped and we are proud to offer up to date community spaces and a great venue for conferences, training events, and other happenings.

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Community Centre- Jennyfields Styan Centre – Visit the website here

Location: Grantley Dr, Harrogate HG3 2XU – Phone: 01423 521667
Description : Jennyfield Styan Community Centre is home to support groups, youth clubs, and a host of activities ranging from tai chi and tea dances to carpet bowls and yoga. The centre, in Grantley Drive, Harrogate, boasts a main hall, car park, meeting room, kitchen, baby changing facilities and facilities for a range of sports, such as football and badminton. There’s also an induction loop system for hearing aid users, and it’s all fully accessible for wheelchair users.

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Fairfax Community Centre – Visit the website here

Location: Fairfax Ave, Harrogate HG2 7RU – Phone: 01423 883614
Description : Fairfax Community Centre offers a wide range of facilities and activities. They include the main activity hall for clubs, activities and parties, badminton and basketball courts, a five-a-side pitch, and uni-hoc, table tennis, boccia, indoor bowls and volleyball equipment. Facilities include a computer suite, meeting room, kitchen, changing rooms, baby changing facilities and car parking, and it’s fully accessible for wheelchair users.

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Knaresborough Community Centre – Visit the website here

Location: 79 Stockwell Ave, Knaresborough HG5 0LG – Phone: 01423 862702
Description :

Facilities include a main activity hall for clubs, activities and parties, badminton, basketball and five-a-side courts, meeting room, kitchen, changing rooms, car parking, and induction loop systems. And it’s all fully accessible for wheelchair users.

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Oatlands Community Centre – Visit the website here

Location: 29 Beech Rd, Harrogate HG2 8DZ – Phone: 07973 164023
Description : Hiring the Community Centre – The Community Centre is fully accessible and insured and, as well as being set right in the heart of Oatlands, it is also located very close to local transport links.  The Community Centre is open to both individuals, clubs and organisations as a venue for hire. The venue offers a main hall, kitchen facilities, tables and chairs.

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Ripon Cathedral Hall – Visit the website here

Location: High Saint Agnesgate, Ripon HG4 1QR – Phone: 01765 451441
Description : Ripon’s Cathedral Hall provides a useful venue for a variety of purposes. We offer a medium sized open space suitable for parties, classes and meetings. On site there is a designated hall car park, men’s and women’s toilets and a small kitchen. We also offer storage for groups who use our facility on a regular basis.

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Ripon Community House – Visit the website here

Location: Sharow View, Allhallowgate, Ripon HG4 1LE – Phone: 01765 603631
Description : The building is open to the general public on weekdays – Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm and Friday 9am to 4pm.  Our reception is staffed by volunteers and there are opportunities to join this team – if interested, contact us here. – We have adult education classes, various exercise classes and other community groups that use the building on a regular basis – daytime and evening.  Please contact us to find what is on. – The interior of the building is fully modernised and Ripon Community House offers meeting, conference and training space in rooms equipped to a good standard. These facilities are available for sessional bookings from 9 am to 9 pm.

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Associations and Community Centres
St Georges Youth Club – Visit the website here

Location: 2 Mornington Terrace, Harrogate HG1 5DH – Phone: 01423 562606
Description : St. George’s Community Centre is a self supporting independent charity which provides a hall with various facilities for groups and families within Harrogate, Starbeck, Knaresborough and the surrounding villages.

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St Roberts Centre – Visit the website here

Location: 1-3 Robert St, Harrogate HG1 1HP – Phone: 01423 529771
Description : The best kept secret in Harrogate. The perfect venue for your next event

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Disability Project – Visit the website here

Phone: E-mail: danielle.mulholland@harrogate.gov.uk

Description: The Disability Project offers advice and support on accessing sport, leisure, and play activities at Harrogate Borough Council facilities. We also offer a range of specialist and inclusive sessions for disabled children and adults.

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Halo Club

Location: Harrogate – Phone: Email: Danielle.mulholland@harrogate.gov.uk or telephone 01423 556719
Description : For young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities) – Runs every Monday at Fairfax Community Centre 7:00—8:30 pm for 14 years and over.

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Harrogate Families – Visit the website here

Location: 10 High St, Harrogate HG2 7HY – Phone: 01423 884018

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Harrogate Gateway Football Club

Description: The club provides coaching and footballing opportunities for people with learning disabilities in the Harrogate area. The club caters for and runs teams at all levels of ability. As well as playing in the Northern Alliance League, the club enters regional and national competitions and regularly has players

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Harrogate Hospitality & Tourism Association — Visit the website here

Location: Bonner & Hindley, Unit 9 Acorn Business Park Address Line 2: Killingbeck Drive, Leeds Postcode: LS14 6UF – Phone: 0113 243 4713

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Harrogate Skills 4 Living Centre – Visit the website here – Location: Harrogate

Description: Providing information, activities and education in an informal setting for people with a wide range of needs. This includes both specific adult literacy groups and leisure library resource base with the aim to empower people with the skills and confidence to lead a full life. Formerly known as The Junction.

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Henshaws Arts and Crafts Centre – Location: Harrogate

Description: The Arts & Crafts Centre provides training for people with disabilities. Real work experience through social enterprise. Every week, over 150 Art Makers take part in a range of workshops, including employability training, health and wellbeing, arts and crafts and multi-sensory.

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Horticap in Harrogate

Horticap – Visit the website here – Location: Harrogate

Description: To provide horticultural training, supported employment and training for people with learning difficulties. Sells products, garden plants, hanging baskets. Undertakes garden maintenance. Uses volunteers to work alongside students and to assist with transport.

Keep up to date with what’s going on at Horticap

**BREAKING NEWS**

**BREAKING NEWS**

..the trees have arrived🌲 🌲  and we are waiting for you at the tree collection point… Please read the guidelines and report there as soon as you can 😀 Thank you for listening (and thank you even more for supporting us) 😀  😀 🌲  4-5ft £41.50 🌲  5-6ft £44.50 🌲  6-7ft…

The Horticap lockdown Garden

Whilst on lockdown we decided to have a complete makeover of the garden at Horticap. It all started when we needed to dig out the ground elder that has taken over and some bright spark said…Let’s dig it all out and start again with the planting. Well things have…

Down Tools…

Down Tools…

…grab a cuppa and put your feet up..the Horticap newsletter has arrived 😀 https://www.horticap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Autumn-Winter-2020-WEB.pdf

Helping Us Out…

Helping Us Out…

Follow the link to find out all about our exciting new garden project… https://thestrayferret.co.uk/harrogate-rallies-around-horticap-for-major-lockdown-projects/

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Henshaws Arts and Crafts Centre

Henshaws Arts and Crafts Centre – Visit the website here – Location: Harrogate

Description: The Arts & Crafts Centre provides training for people with disabilities. Real work experience through social enterprise. Every week, over 150 Art Makers take part in a range of workshops, including employability training, health and wellbeing, arts and crafts and multi-sensory.

Henshaws is one of the oldest charities in the UK and in 2022 we celebrated our 185th anniversary. During out 180th year in 2017 we had a special exhibition space in Manchester’s Central Library – find out about our history and how it all started.

The legacy

In 1810, Oldham businessman Thomas Henshaw left £20,000 in his will to establish an ‘Asylum for the Indigent Blind’ in Manchester. In 1837, the original ‘blind asylum’ finally opened its doors in Old Trafford. By 1930, the school had 273 pupils, 194 workshop employees, 64 residents and 19 blind instructors.

Now approaching almost 200 years old, Henshaws is still growing today! We employ around 360 members of staff and 232 volunteers who support individuals, families and their carers who are living with sight loss as well as a range of other disabilities.

We have a full archive of Henshaws Annual Reviews from across our 180-year history if you are interested in reading any of these contact kat.parry@henshaws.org.uk or call 0300 222 5555. Please be aware requests can take a few weeks to be responded to.

180th Anniversary Exhibition

Throughout September and October last year, we celebrated our 180th anniversary with an exhibition space in Manchester’s Central Library. Discover how the communities of Greater Manchester have worked alongside Henshaws to improve the lives of people with sight loss; you can even see a number of famous Manchester images through the eyes of someone with a common visual impairment!

You can download audio descriptions of all six panels from the 180th Anniversary Exhibition below. Or click the button further down to download the full exhibition design

We are a specialist charity providing expert support, advice and training to anyone affected by sight loss and other disabilities. Last year alone, we supported over 6,000 visually impaired people in the North of England.

Having a visual impairment or disability can mean people lose confidence in their future and find themselves isolated. We strive to support people to ensure that they do not feel alone, and that they have the skills and confidence to lead a live that is full of choice and opportunity.

We rely on your generous help to ensure we can continue this life-changing work, and we truly appreciate any way that you can support us.

Henshaws Arts and Crafts Centre

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Harrogate Skills 4 Living Centre

Harrogate Skills 4 Living Centre – Visit the website here – Location: Harrogate

Description: Providing information, activities and education in an informal setting for people with a wide range of needs. This includes both specific adult literacy groups and leisure library resource base with the aim to empower people with the skills and confidence to lead a full life. Formerly known as The Junction.

About us

Originally formed back in 1994 as The Junction, Harrogate Skills 4 Living became established as a charity in 2010 with the ‘day-skills’ centre-hub on North Park road in central Harrogate. During the past decade, our needs-led approach has resulted in lots of diversification and we’re proud to offer a wide range of care and support services for people with learning difficulties and autism in the locality.

From housing to employment and health to skills development we have a broad range of programmes available: we’ve even recently started two exciting new social enterprises – the Harrogate Chocolate Factory and the Harrogate Chocolate Factory Café both run with and by our trainees.

We’re not content to stop there though as we believe that there are still many other types of care and support services that are needed. That’s why in 2022 we’re starting our ENGAGE22 project which aims to find out what’s working well and what’s not working so well in our local community of people with learning difficulties and autism (including families and carers). This will be your chance to have a say about the future of social care and support services here in Harrogate – please watch out for further information coming soon about how you can get involved.

Day Services

Our approach to education, training and learning for our students and service users is completely tailored to their individual needs and aspirations. At HS4L we deliver both accredited and non-accredited courses. Learning may be delivered in a number of locations and either on a one to one basis or in small groups.

Below are some of the areas that students and service users can follow:

Maintaining independence and living independently

Developing new skills and interests

Participating more in community life

Transitioning into adulthood

Developing skills and competencies that support the journey to employment

Day services

HS4L skill – centre courses are designed to be fun and engaging and aim to help develop independence skills and contribute towards a fulfilled life. A full list of what’s on offer is available in our prospectus.

Students can attend for full or half days up to five days a week and choose from a variety of courses.

Creative Crafts

Food & Catering

Music Courses

Allotment Group

Computer Skills

Health & Well-being

Friday Fun & Friendship

Out & About

Skills for Independence

Gym & Fitness sessions

We sometimes have the flexibility to run additional courses at our day centre and in the wider community. If there is something you would like HS4L to run that isn’t in our current prospectus, please contact us to see how we can best meet your needs.

HS4L is an accredited learning provider. Learners will be informed of any opportunities to work towards a qualification during their studies.

If you’re interested in joining any of HS4L sessions but you’re not sure, why not come and meet some of the staff and have a look around before making a decision.

 

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