Community Kitchen For Twickenham

Funded on
22 Nov 2018

Help us create a community kitchen run by The Real Junk Food Project & make the building fully accessible. A place to meet, share meals and build a sense of community while reducing food waste.

£93,310 Raised of £92,919

268 Backers

100%

Costs

VAT (20%) £14,000
Cavity wall and brickwork £9,700
Kitchen units and worktop £8,000
Glass and glazing £7,400
Contingency £7,000
Preliminaries £6,250
Excavation and site works £5,900
Foundations £4,500
Structural Steelwork £4,500
Roofing construction £4,240
Other + £18,245

Joinery and carpentry £4,215

Demolition and strip out £3,050

Electrical services £2,460

Mechanical services £2,420

Concrete floor for extension £2,200

Flooring for kitchen £1,700

Underground drainage £1,100

New ceilings £700

Integrated under counter refridgerator £320

Microwave £80
Target: (inc. fees) £92,918

http://www.etnacentre.org

The East Twickenham Neighbourhood Association (ETNA) Community Centre was set up in 1985 by residents with the simple aim of improving community life for the benefit of everyone who lives or works in the area. Today, it continues to provide space for all members of the community to meet, whatever their age, gender, politics, or religion.

Our Centre is at the forefront of addressing issues of social isolation, community cohesion, environmental sustainability, and the physical, mental health and wellbeing, in our local area. Open 7 days a week, over 1,000 people (30% of which are retired) come through our doors on a weekly basis to take part in an extensive range of activities, including regular classes, workshops and one-off events, in subjects as diverse as Art and Zumba (and everything in between - see our website for full details.)

A Nursery for preschool children runs daily, followed by a wide range of after-school activities including dance, karate, computer coding and Kumon. We also have a wide range of life-long learning, fitness, health and wellbeing activities for adults.

At the heart of Twickenham, our lovely Victorian building has a hall, another large room and small kitchen on the ground floor and four rooms on the first floor available to the community for hire.

We let out office space for small local charities, which would struggle to afford the commercial rental rates available elsewhere in the area. Acting as a local charitable hub, (Arts Richmond, Crossway Pregnancy Crisis Centre, Environment Trust for Richmond, Richmond Good Neighbours, South-West London Environment Network, Street Invest, The Conservation Volunteers), share rooms, equipment, skills and good practice. We benefit by being able to tap in to a talented pool of partners and extend our reach further in to the community.

The Centre also provides a base for local self-help groups (including AA, Al-Anon, SLAA and CODA) and 1:1 counselling (20% of users), for people struggling with mental health and well-being challenges.

Project Owner: ETNA Community Centre The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.