About us..
Woolston Community Association (registered charity No 302000) administrates the Community Centre on a long lease from Southampton City Council. The Association has a general committee of managing trustees with honorary officers elected annually at the AGM.
There are no paid posts within the Association.
The buildings are managed and maintained on a daily basis by the Centre Committee, a standing committee of volunteers appointed by WCA. It is based directly opposite St. Mark's Church at the junction of Weston Grove Road and Church Road and hosts a wide range of daytime and evening activities. It is an ideal venue for those special events or parties.
We have a separate annexe which is home to one of the top rated pre-schools in the city.
According to it’s constitution, the main object of WCA is “to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Woolston and neighbourhood by associating them in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure-time occupation” (there are even more words in the actual document, but that’s the gist of it!).
The other main object is “to establish, or to secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain and manage the same (whether alone or in co-operation with any local authority or other person or body) in furtherance of the above”.
We are doing our best to live up to these lofty words!
The WCA really needs more people to take an interest in keeping the centre up to scratch and in good financial shape for future generations. This committee meets four times a year and monitors and advises on the business of the association.
See link below for how you can help make a difference:
Your Community Association Needs You
If you are interested in getting involved with the Association or the Centre Committee, please contact us via the website.
Barry Wake
Chair, Woolston Community Centre Management Committee
There are no paid posts within the Association.
The buildings are managed and maintained on a daily basis by the Centre Committee, a standing committee of volunteers appointed by WCA. It is based directly opposite St. Mark's Church at the junction of Weston Grove Road and Church Road and hosts a wide range of daytime and evening activities. It is an ideal venue for those special events or parties.
We have a separate annexe which is home to one of the top rated pre-schools in the city.
According to it’s constitution, the main object of WCA is “to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Woolston and neighbourhood by associating them in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure-time occupation” (there are even more words in the actual document, but that’s the gist of it!).
The other main object is “to establish, or to secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain and manage the same (whether alone or in co-operation with any local authority or other person or body) in furtherance of the above”.
We are doing our best to live up to these lofty words!
The WCA really needs more people to take an interest in keeping the centre up to scratch and in good financial shape for future generations. This committee meets four times a year and monitors and advises on the business of the association.
See link below for how you can help make a difference:
Your Community Association Needs You
If you are interested in getting involved with the Association or the Centre Committee, please contact us via the website.
Barry Wake
Chair, Woolston Community Centre Management Committee
