Newcastle Trampoline Park and Gym; community links and Partnership working.
Newcastle Trampoline Park and Gym community links and Partnership working.
Newcastle Trampoline Park and Gym, is a leisure centre operated by GLL under our Better brand in partnership with Newcastle city council.
Our company champions equal opportunities and community links in all aspects of the service.
GLL is a not for profit charitable social enterprise committed to delivering a better quality of fitness and leisure, libraries and performing arts facilities for everyone. We’re committed to providing access to quality community facilities at a price everyone can afford operating under our 'Better' brand.
We act as a charity and are here for the benefit of the communities we operate in. We are passionate about making a real difference.
As a community focused organisation we work closely with a lot of local partners and community groups to help us to connect to the local community and provide access for all to the activities available in our centre.
Here are some of the groups and organisations we have worked with most recently and frequently over the last 12 months:
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There are two neighbouring partners with whom we share more than just a car park:
City learning centre (Westgate College)
https://www.newcastlecitylearning.ac.uk/westgate-college
Westgate College is Newcastle City Learning's main venue for both courses and our staff. As well as our full course offer, we run the Access to HE Diploma programme from here. We also have a fully equipped teaching kitchen.
Soccerworld
https://soccerworlduk.com/soccerworld-newcastle
Opened in 2008 Soccerworld Newcastle boasts seven 5-a-side pitches and two 7-a-side pitch. The centre offers a variety of leagues, coaching classes as well as regular bookings and kid’s birthday parties.
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Sports Clubs and organisations who use our facilities on a regular basis, from training to competitive matches, for all ages and abilities.
Westgate Juniors Football Club
https://westgatejuniors.co.uk/news
Westgate Juniors Football Club was founded in 2006 with the support of the Hat-trick project after successfully hosting a mini world cup festival with local schools. In 2007 the club was awarded the FA Charter Standard Award and then the Charter Standard Development Club mark in 2011.
Medics Hockey club
Newcastle Medics Hockey Club is a (field) hockey club based in Newcastle in the North of England.
There are no set standards for entry. Medics, non-medics, experienced players and newcomers to the game are all welcome. We don't take ourselves too seriously and you can commit yourself to as much or as little hockey as you like.
Newcastle Hockey club (including Junior team / Harper League).
https://www.newcastlehockeyclub.com
Newcastle Hockey Club is a family friendly, open and inclusive club based in the heart of the North East. We have over 150 senior and 130 junior members. We are based at a Jesmond Park Academy in Heaton, Newcastle-upon Tyne, where we have access to two sand-dressed astro turf pitches.
Newcastle Hockey runs 4 ladies' teams, 2 men’s teams, a Masters team and a flourishing Junior section.
England Hockey
https://www.englandhockey.co.uk
Northumberland Football Association
https://www.northumberlandfa.com
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There are a number of local schools who visit our centre every week. Using the outdoor pitches and Trampoline Park for anything from P.E. lessons to special events.
As well as other children’s clubs who book sessions with us for their groups.
Dame Allan’s
Dame Allan’s was founded in 1705 to provide quality education for boys and girls in Newcastle.
We are unique in the region as the only school following the pioneering Diamond Structure of education, which combines single-sex education within a co-educational setting.
Trinity Academy
Trinity Academy Newcastle Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust which incorporates a Pre-16 Special Converter Academy (Trinity Academy Newcastle), a Post-16 Converter Academy (Trinity Solutions Academy), one private limited company (Trinity Post-16 Solutions Ltd) and more recently a sponsored Academy (Trinity Academy New Bridge).
Talbot house
https://www.talbothousecc.org.uk
Our aim is to inspire young people to become resilient, motivated, and successful adults who are equipped to meet the challenges of today and the future. We do this by creating a positive, supportive, and stimulating environment that promotes their development, academically, spiritually and socially. We pride ourselves on ‘changing children’s lives’.
The Gateshead Cheder Primary School
The Gateshead Cheder Primary School is an Orthodox Jewish school, with a Jewish ethos, providing education for boys between the ages of three and 14.
Local Guides, Brownies and Rainbows packs
Girlguiding is the UK’s largest youth organisation dedicated completely to girls.
Girls can do anything. We help them know that, whether they’re 4 or 18 or in between.
https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/
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We work with other local charities, social enterprises, community organisations and project teams to make sure activities at our centre are accessible to those who wouldn’t always be able access them otherwise. This can be anything from one off sessions to school summer holiday programmes that last the full 6 weeks.
Street games
Street games believe that access to sport and its benefits are a right and not a privilege. For young people growing up in low-income, underserved communities, however, opportunities to play sport and be active are all too often either limited or non-existent. To bridge this opportunity gap, we work closely with our network members and partners to unlock the multiple benefits that physical activity can offer to children and young people living in underserved communities.
Healthworks
https://www.healthworksnewcastle.org.uk
Healthworks tackles health inequalities with a diverse range of projects, activities and interventions that improve health outcomes for individuals, families and communities across the region. We work in partnership with colleagues and communities to devise cost effective solutions that secure sustainable health impacts for many conditions that inhibit quality of life.
Pendower Neighbourhood Youth Project
https://www.facebook.com/Pendowergnp
Pendower Good Neighbour Project is a registered charity supporting residents on Pendower Estate.
Northbourne Youth Initiative
Northbourne Youth Initiative’s aim is to offer children and young people 8-25 years a range of opportunities to further their personal experience and social development. We are a neighbourhood based project working with children and young people in and around Elswick and the West End of the city.
Far Community
FAR has been serving residents of Fenham since 1988, we operate from a purpose-built accessible community centre in the heart of Fenham in the West End of Newcastle upon Tyne. Our aim is to help people go further, providing support, direction, hope, encouragement and praise; we are here for them every step of the way. We passionately believe in what we do, responding to situations, driving change, and providing opportunities for our community to enhance their lives.
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Religious bodies or organisations, where we help support them with anything from huge one off community events to regular weekly bookings.
Newcastle Mosque
https://www.newcastlecentralmosque.com
Newcastle Central Mosque is a vibrant and active Mosque in the North East of England hosting the daily prayers for hundreds of worshippers as well as many regular activities, classes and events for the local community.
Hindu Temple Newcastle
The Hindu Temple is a registered charity that is the cultural and religious base for the Hindu community in Newcastle.
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Other Local Charities and organisations who we support and also support us.
Newcastle West End Foodbank
https://newcastlewestend.foodbank.org.uk
We don’t think anyone in our community should have to face going hungry. That’s why we provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to us in crisis. We are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK.
Connected Voice
http://www.connectedvoice.org.uk
We provide free advice and support to people and organisations to help them make a positive difference, as well as ethical accountancy that directly funds our charitable work.
We campaign for health equality and represent our charity, social enterprise and voluntary community nationally, regionally and locally.
This Girl Can
From day one, the award-winning This Girl Can campaign has been shaking up the way women get active and changing the rules of the game.
SPLASH
SPECIAL PLAY AND LEISURE AFTER SCHOOL HOURS
The charity's objective is to provide holistic support to children with disabilities/additional needs, and their families, within the listed area of benefit. Support and respite are offered to the parents and siblings, whilst the children with disabilities are granted various provisions which can aid and enhance their physical and emotional wellbeing and development.