Type Registered Charity Website clementjames.org Non-profit registration ID 1009253 Phone +44 20 7221 8810 | Registration no. 1009253 Area served North Kensington Revenue 686,036 GBP (2015) Founded 1992 | |
Location Sirdar Road, London, W11, UK Key people Clare Richards MBE FRSA (Chief Executive) Slogan Releasing potential in the community Address 95 Sirdar Rd, London W11 4EQ, UK Motto Releasing potential in the community Similar Edward Woods Communi, White City Community Centre, Dalgarno Community Centre, Westway Trust, St Francis of Assisi RC Chur | ||
The ClementJames Centre is an award-winning UK education charity based in North Kensington, a deprived area in London.
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The charity's main message is that anyone has the potential to achieve their goals and succeed in life. By providing tailored support around education, employment and wellbeing it breaks down barriers and empowers people to release their full potential.
Adult Programmes
Communicate Adult Learning: For disadvantaged adults, this includes ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), Functional Skills English, basic skills, and advice and guidance to adults with English as a second language. The programme also offers basic skills courses for English native speakers, such as ICT and numeracy courses.
IntoWork Employment Support: IntoWork is designed to break the cycle of generations of unemployment in the local population. Its mission is to enable unemployed adults and young people not in education, work or training to find secure employment with good pay and conditions. The centre provides qualifications, career coaching, job preparation and job application support, as well as outreach in schools, colleges, community centres and other voluntary organisations.
Information, Advice and Guidance: Impartial advice service to help users resolve their problems, ranging from housing and benefits to changing schools and accessing other services.
Literacy and Numeracy Support: Intensive one-to-one support for adults from disadvantaged backgrounds. The scheme helps adults to improve their literacy and numeracy skills to remove barriers to education and employment.
Health and Wellbeing: The centre also offers activities to promote service users' health and wellbeing, such as gardening sessions, reading and peer support groups, parenting workshops and a weekly wellbeing clinic.
Youth Programmes
IntoUniversity (North Kensington): An innovative programme that supports children and young people (aged 7–18) from disadvantaged backgrounds to attain either a university place or another chosen aspiration. The centre provides sustained after-school academic support, undergraduate student and corporate mentoring, specially designed FOCUS study weeks, as well as careers workshops run by industry professionals. The programme was piloted at The ClementJames Centre in 2002. In 2007 a new charity, IntoUniversity, was launched to expand the programme nationwide.
Summer Carnival Arts: A 3-4 week summer holiday programme involving local children and young people in the preparations for the annual Notting Hill Carnival.
Literacy and Numeracy Support: Intensive one-to-one support for children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The scheme helps children to improve their Maths and English skills, gain confidence and catch up with their peers.
Leadership
The charity's Chief Executive, Clare Richards MBE FRSA, received her award for work with this charity;. She is also a co-founder and Trustee of IntoUniversity.
Awards
Shortlisted: Directory for Social Change Award, 2012
Highly Commended: Civil Society Charity of the Year Award (Education & Training), 2014
Winner: Charity of the Year, Charity Times, 2014
Shortlisted: Charity of the Year, Charity Times, 2015
Shortlisted: Charity of the Year, Charity Times, 2016