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Brighton Table Tennis Club

Brighton and Hove

Project Details

Alteration to existing property

Practice

Stead & Co

4 Bay Horse Court , OTLEY , West Yorkshire , LS21 1SB

We have recently been working with the Kempton Community Centre in Brighton to develop a feasibility study to support a Sport England Community Asset Fund application. We worked with each of the stakeholders which included the existing congregation of St John the Baptist congregation, the Diocese of Brighton, Voices in Exile (a charity that provides advice for asylum seekers and refugees locally), Brighton Table Tennis Club and the Real Junk Food Project. In addition to this, Sports England was regularly consulted with since they were a part-funder of the project. The Table Tennis Club alone has over 1250 users which include people with learning disabilities, young people from the Brighton Travellers site, Looked After Children, people with physical disabilities, people from the LGBTQ+ community and young asylum seekers. The club is the world’s first recognised Club of Sanctuary, for its work with refugees. The initial brief was to create a community cafe in the existing Parish Hall. However, we have identified areas of overlap between each of the stakeholders that had not been previously recognised and saw an opportunity that sought more integration and inclusion, providing an oasis in a quieter part of town.