Centre West

Hays Travel Funding Boost for Hat-Trick Volunteers

Posted on June 27, 2018 (May 18, 2023)

Hat-Trick volunteers are benefitting from a whopping £7,600 funding boost from Hays Travel. These funds will allow those on the volunteer programme to develop their coaching opportunities and increase their chances of gaining qualifications and awards leading to further employment opportunities. Hat-Trick will train young people from the local community to become volunteers who […]

Elswick Pool – What’s Happening?

Posted on December 16, 2017 (May 18, 2023)

At the end of 2017 the group were granted official status as a CIO with the group now being known as Elswick Community Pool and Leisure Centre. The group continue to meet with the aim to reopen the pool. Elswick Community Pool and Leisure Centre is still made up of representatives from Centre West, the […]

Wimbledon Winners

Posted on July 7, 2017 (May 18, 2023)

Hat-Trick staff members had the opportunity to take some of their volunteers down to Wimbledon for day 2 of the tennis tournament. Volunteer Co-ordinators, Michael Gardner and Wasim Collins, took the lucky 5 dedicated volunteers down to the famous SW19 postcode on Tuesday. The first game they took in was the all British battle between […]

Offices to Let

Posted on December 19, 2016 (May 18, 2023)

Our properties in Hawthorn Terrace will have vacancies from January 2017. One building will have 3 offices available; ranging in size from 222 sq. ft to 309 sq. ft; all situated on the ground floor. There is also a kitchen and toilet located on this floor. The neighbouring building houses the organisations staff team; there will […]

Funding Boost for Hat-Trick

Posted on December 13, 2016 (May 18, 2023)

Hat-Trick has recently been awarded £16,951 from the People’s Postcode Lottery. This funding boost comes from the Postcode Community Trust and will help Hat-Trick to engage young people to develop their sports coaching skills and increase their chances of gaining qualifications and awards leading to further employment opportunities. Michael Gardner, Hat-Trick’s Volunteer Co-ordinator, said “receiving […]

Celebrating ten years of Hat-Trick

Posted on September 21, 2015 (May 18, 2023)

We’re wishing a very happy birthday to one of Centre West’s most popular and successful initiatives. Set up as a three-year project in 2004, Hat-Trick has made a unique mark in communities in the West End and beyond. Initially led by Mark Oliver, the team has worked with over 16,000 children and young people, using […]

Hat-Tricks Fitness Friendzy

Posted on June 2, 2015 (May 18, 2023)

Hat-Trick recently launched their Fitness Friendzy programme at Moorside Primary School. Fitness Friendzy is working in partnership with the local primary schools to increase the number of women participating in sport and exercise. Moorside Primary School hosted the first Fitness Friendzy session where Hat-Trick’s ‘Us Girls’ team put the female parents and carers through […]

Congratulations Hat-Trick!

Posted on May 5, 2015 (May 18, 2023)

Our Hat-Trick Team were recently awarded the prestigious Sport Newcastle ‘Team Community Award 2015’ at the INTU Sport Newcastle Annual Awards. The team received this recognition for being the project that has contributed most to the community. The full team attended this black tie event held at Newcastle Civic Centre which also had the Newcastle United […]

The Beacon – a West End success story

Posted on June 11, 2014 (May 18, 2023)

A flagship enterprise centre supported by Centre West has proved a huge success, with over 95% of its business units now occupied. The Beacon, which was developed in partnership with Groundwork (South Tyneside and Newcastle), opened in 2012 after a £6.5m redevelopment of the former Westgate Road fire station site. Already it has proved a springboard […]

Let’s get together to tackle food poverty

Posted on June 10, 2014 (May 18, 2023)

With around 13 million people living below the poverty line in the UK, food banks have become a vital resource – providing emergency help to almost a million people in the past year. One Tyneside food bank recently reported a 200% increase in demand, due to factors like low incomes, rising prices and social welfare […]

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