This half day event in London helped to raise awareness of the Programme’s impact and explore opportunities for future work in this area. The event featured government representatives, policy makers, academics and funders and gave first hand accounts of the process from a variety of project case studies. To view our full presentation please visit www.hact.org.uk/ehcgp-projects-achievements-london-event-february-2015
Sam came to the organisation as a volunteer in January 2012 and was then offered an apprenticeship in Carpentry & Joinery in April 2012. Sam says ” I enjoy working on the Empty Homes Project because it has helped me gain valuable site experience whilst still being encouraged to go to day release at college … Read more
Trusting World What does it take us to trust people? Is it reliability, support on tap or simply showing you care? Trust means you place your faith, confidence and expectations into someone or something without a second thought. It’s a confidence that strengthens with every interaction you have with a person, organisation or business. Lose … Read more
Ex tenant, Joseph McMahon, who is now a self employed plumbing and heating specialist, has gained work as a sub contractor on the Empty Homes Programme delivered by Community Campus. Joe was a tenant of Community Campus over a decade ago and he reconnected with the organisation during his plumbing training in order to complete … Read more
On Wednesday 17 December 2014, we hosted our annual Clients Christmas Lunch at St. Mary’s Centre. Over 100 clients and staff came to help us celebrate Christmas with plenty of prizes and quizzes available for all to enjoy – we even had a game of bingo! A special guest appearance was made by Middlesbrough footballers … Read more
Community Campus have recently renovated a long standing empty property in Hartlepool as part of a major regeneration scheme, a programme of work by Housing Hartlepool that will eventually see almost 100 properties being brought back into use. The former laundrette in York Road has been converted into 4 flats by our construction staff including, … Read more
Rebecca was a client of Community Campus 4 years ago. She moved on successfully and has managed numerous tenancies since her time with us. As Rebecca is now studying towards a degree in Community Studies, she required a placement and contacted Community Campus via Facebook to see if we could help. Rebecca is now volunteering … Read more
Community Campus worked with a group of young volunteers last weekend to decorate our base in Middlesbrough. This project was developed as part of the Volunteer It Yourself Scheme which sees volunteering and DIY combined and young people challenged to learn building and construction skills, on the job, by committing to fix local youth club … Read more
We were having some difficulties with our IT infrastructure caused by the multiple locations of our IT equipment placing a strain on our servers. Downloading our files was extremely slow and sharing information across departments was very difficult as our connections kept dropping off. With a limited budget to resolve the problems, we turned to … Read more
Each year, our very generous staff send each other Christmas cards. As there are now 50+ of us, we offered staff an alternative to sitting and writing out of all those cards – donate your money instead. Staff were asked to choose 3 worthy causes and then made voluntary donations to which one they wished … Read more