£2m boost for Coleshill Social Centre
A £2million refurbishment of Llanelli’s Coleshill Social Centre will get underway in next summer, following a successful bid for European funding.
Jointly funded through the Carmarthenshire County Council’s capital grant programme and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the transformation will create a Centre for Economic Inclusion to provide a wide range of support services for people who are economically inactive.
Currently, Coleshill predominantly supports adults with physical disabilities and older people. On completion, it will attract younger physically disabled people, and a wider group of disadvantaged people including people with learning disabilities and others.
The new Coleshill will continue to provide social, networking and peer support, but will also provide training facilities, such as IT, catering and woodwork; support for people who want to create small businesses; an ‘independent living’ information hub; and health improvement and rehabilitation support with a small gym suite.
The aim is to improve the social and economic prospects of people who have been unable to find and retain employment or training for a long time due to longstanding ill-health or other severe disabilities.
Dr Brickchand Ramruttun, Carmarthenshire Health and Wellbeing Partnership manager, who led on the bid for funding, said: “The vision for the new Coleshill Centre is that it will have something for all working-age adults to get the necessary help and support they need to sustain independent living, including work and training. The best thing about it is that it will be run by a committee made up of local people, representing disability groups and other interested parties.”
Current users of Coleshill day centre, along with staff and volunteers, will be relocated during the transformation.
Cllr Pat Jones, executive board member for health and social care, said: “This heralds a significant step forward in the range of support services we are able to offer to people who face barriers to training and employment.
”We have met with Coleshill’s current service users, and they are looking forward to the future, having had an explanation of the kind of facilities they will see on their return to Coleshill.”
Jointly funded through the Carmarthenshire County Council’s capital grant programme and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the transformation will create a Centre for Economic Inclusion to provide a wide range of support services for people who are economically inactive.
Currently, Coleshill predominantly supports adults with physical disabilities and older people. On completion, it will attract younger physically disabled people, and a wider group of disadvantaged people including people with learning disabilities and others.
The new Coleshill will continue to provide social, networking and peer support, but will also provide training facilities, such as IT, catering and woodwork; support for people who want to create small businesses; an ‘independent living’ information hub; and health improvement and rehabilitation support with a small gym suite.
The aim is to improve the social and economic prospects of people who have been unable to find and retain employment or training for a long time due to longstanding ill-health or other severe disabilities.
Dr Brickchand Ramruttun, Carmarthenshire Health and Wellbeing Partnership manager, who led on the bid for funding, said: “The vision for the new Coleshill Centre is that it will have something for all working-age adults to get the necessary help and support they need to sustain independent living, including work and training. The best thing about it is that it will be run by a committee made up of local people, representing disability groups and other interested parties.”
Current users of Coleshill day centre, along with staff and volunteers, will be relocated during the transformation.
Cllr Pat Jones, executive board member for health and social care, said: “This heralds a significant step forward in the range of support services we are able to offer to people who face barriers to training and employment.
”We have met with Coleshill’s current service users, and they are looking forward to the future, having had an explanation of the kind of facilities they will see on their return to Coleshill.”
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