18 January 2012

Hi 2012 is the 50th anniversary of the Percy Community Centre and we would love to invite you to or A.G.M to kick of a year of celebrating our history and our future. Please join us on Friday 10th of February from 6pm to 8pm for fun and food (and formalities)! We would be interested to collect all the stories we can about those who have used the Centre over the years. So if you are a new user, a local resident, one of the 'old boys' (or girls) or any one else with an interest in what...
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8 December 2011

We are please to announce our 'Young Stars' project has been funded through the B&NES Council Youth Empowerment Fund. This is a music production and performance workshop aimed at girls aged 13 - 17. The project offers free sessions with a professional producer and performance coach to aid you in getting started with music, recording demos and improving techniques. Please feel free to get in contact or just drop in. Wednesdays 5.30-7.30 pm starting from January 14th 2012...
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6 December 2011

Just to let you all know. Our Christmas closing times this year are from Moday 19th December to Monday 2nd of January. We will be open for business as usual on Tuesday the 3rd of January. We hope you all have a great Christmas and a happy new year....
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29 November 2011

We would like to say a huge thankyou to everyone from Danone who came to re-paint the Centre this week. The team has spent two days sanding, filling, rollering and glossing our basement and ground floor rooms, bringing a fantastic new shine to everything. They have even bought new covers for the sofas. They raised all the money for the project by having a sponsored leg wax for the male members of the team!! That is dedication to the cause :) This will get the Centre all fresh and ready...
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15 November 2011

Craft Fair, 3rd December. Open 11am - 5pm Free Entry! Please come and have a look around to find truely unique and homemade Christmas treasures! There will be lots of lovely things such as jewellery, textiles, handmade cards, art & crafts, home gifts and edible treats being sold. There will be hot drinks and mince pies being served all day. The craft fair is being held to raise money for the Trauma Recovery Centre, please see www.trc-uk.org for more information or contact...
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9 November 2011

Hurray! We have just been given £500 by Quartet towards our children's play activities. We will add these to your kind donations and it means we will definitely be running activities in the February half term. :)...
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18 October 2011

Thanks so much to Waitrose and all who shop there. We were one of there chose charities and have received a donation of £325 pounds with which we bought this awesome new computer for Claire! No more waiting half an hour for start up and five minutes to check a date on the scheduel! Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou....
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18 October 2011

Have a look at this! A king volunteer is building a walk through of the centre for people to view on line! We are just a bit excited about this :) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34478950/Percy/WebPlayer/WebPlayer.html You can use the arrow keys to more around the centre. It is just a first build at the moment, but we hope to have a full version on the web site at some point so that people can view our rooms 'virtually' before booking them actually!...
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10 October 2011

After much badgering from the youth club we have just bought a new TV! This 50 Inch monster should be perfect for them to enjoy all of the educational and edifying content that is the staple diet of modern youth. If you are between 12-17 any want a try on this, or cooking, or real actual football, or music making, internet, pool or table football or anything else thats on hand, please feel free to drop in. the youth project is open 7-9pm on Thursday evenings. ...
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19 September 2011

Percy's playscheme was given some added international input this year as a Japanese language school who use the Centre as their base in the summer joined the children to run activites. With the support of our playworkers (making chocolate brownies) they lead the children in traditional pastimes such as origami, painting and ball games. A wonderful time was had by all, with lots for everyone to learn!...
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29 June 2011

Here are a couple of pics from the street party. It was great fun even though the elements were a little against us. Thanks to eveyone who helped out. If you want to get involved next year please get in touch. ...
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12 May 2011

We are closing New King Street for a day of free fun for all the family - Live music, activities and games. Hope to see you all there! ...
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6 April 2011

Please note Percy Community Centre will be closed for the following bank holidays - Friday 22nd April (Good Friday) Monday 25th April (Easter Monday) Friday 29th April (Royal Wedding) Monday 2nd May (May Day) Monday 30th May (Spring Bank Holiday) Thanks everyone!...
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29 January 2011

There is new Muay Thai (Thai Boxing) class starting at Percy Community Centre and to get you interested, there is a FREE taster class on Wednesday 2nd February 2011 at 7.30pm The class will be weekly on Wednesdays. For more information email jm.simta@googlemail.com or Tel: 07976 302924 Kru John. Suitable dress: Shorts or elasticated tracksuit/jogging bottoms and a t'shirt. You may also want to bring a towel because of sweating when training. Drink: Plain bottled water....
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10 January 2011

We are looking for an enthusiastic Play Leader to join our after school club and work closely with the Children's Services Coordinator. This is a brilliant opportunity to join our community centre play team. The role can be tailored to your needs and may also be able to offer you hours running our holiday clubs and outreach projects. Alternatively, you may prefer part time hours. If you hold a relevant level 3 qualification in early years, play or childcare, please contact Sarah in the...
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17 November 2010

We are excited to be hosting another free community celebration on Friday 26th November. A chance for everyone to get together and take part in some brilliant activities this year including a laughter workshop, drumming, Christmas wreath making, card making, bird feeders and access to our very own pamper room! We will also be serving delicious home made soup and sweet winter snacks. Why not come along, join the fun and tell us what you want from your community centre over the next year. ...
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15 October 2010

The Percy Community Centre has just been awarded 50% of the funding it need to fit a 14kw solar panel system on its roof! This £35,000 grant is part of a package of measures that also include motion activated lighting and additional insulation measures. I comes on top of a substantial investment on the part of B&NES in improving the heating system and upgrading the windows of the building earlier in the year. This is a fantastic success for us and puts us in a strong position to attract the...
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14 September 2010

There is a new kung fu class starting at Percy Community Centre and to get you interested, there is a FREE taster class on October 4th at 7.30pm! The classes will be weekly Mondays and Thursdays for ages 15+. For more information email: olesmith@yahoo.com...
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7 September 2010

Thanks to everyone who came to the street party on 07/08/2010. It was a bit rainy but we still had a great day. There were some amazing junk models and the music from Poppy and Friends and Fungus licks were brilliant. We are, of course, planning to do it again next year. Anyone who has any suggestions or feed back, or would like to get involved, please email us at the Percy Centre....
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30 July 2010

Summer play sessions begin on Wednesday 4th August this year with the usual array of activities and fun things to do. We will have quad bikes, animal visits, bar fly as well. Also, thanks to funding from the Quartet Foundation we will also be running sports workshops with skilled coaches. Local children aged 5-13 are welcome to come and join us between 2.00-4.00pm. If you live near the centre then our playworkers will also be visiting the local green spaces to play with children. On...
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30 July 2010

Don't forget our street party is taking place on Saturday 7th August 11.00am-5.00pm. There will be lots to do for the whole family including live music, food stalls, bouncy castle, face painting, glitter tattoos, junk modelling, dancing and much more. Most activities are free but expect to pay for food. See you all there!...
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30 July 2010

We are pleased to welcome some new classes to the centre. Adult Ballet will be starting at the beginning of August. We will also be hosting yoga for toddlers and an 'adult hoops and silks' excercise class which are both starting in September. Also returning after the summer break will be the popular yoga fitness and pilates classes. For more information give us a call at the centre....
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26 July 2010

On the 7th August New King Street will be closed off, cleared of cars and transformed for the 2010 Street Party. Like last year's, only bigger and better. Join us for live music and family fun. Bands include Percy's own Rainbow Steel Orchestra, the Bath-based With Love From Humans and the acoustic folk project, Poppy and Friends. There will be a bouncy castle and other entertainment for children and plenty of stalls offering food and other activities....
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28 June 2010

The Percy Centre have received funding from St Johns Hospital to continue its music activities for 12 to 18 year old's on Monday and Tuesday evenings 7pm to 9pm. These projects will launch again on 5th and 6th of July. Monday nights will be 'Radio Production' teaching how to create radio shows for broadcast over the internet, including DJ sets, 'on air' practice and creating play-lists and jingles.Tuesday nights will be 'Urban Music Development' a project designed for those already producing...
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28 June 2010

The Percy Community Centre is proud to announce that it has received 3 years of funding for their youth project from Children in Need. This amazing donation will cover the Thursday night session 7pm to 9pm including the 5-a-side football league and outreach for children and young people on Mondays and Fridays around Kingsmead. This is a fantastic success and means that in these uncertain times our youth provision will be stable and secure until 2013! ...
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14 May 2010

We will be running two play sessions during the school break. 5-13 year olds can join us on Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd June between 2.00-4.00pm. There will be lots of activities including cooking, arts and crafts, chill out spaces, games and sports. Play workers will also be at Lampard Buildings Park (off of Julian Road) from 10.00-12.00 on Tuesday and at Green Park (near Sainsburys) 10.00-12.00 on Wednesday for some outside play! To find out more about open access play sessions feel...
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9 March 2010

The Percy youth project (PYP) football league now has an online league tracker. You can follow the progess of the teams at http://pyp.leaguerepublic.com/...
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9 March 2010

We are deep in the thick of extensive building work at the moment, but will emerge soon as a much improved location for you all to enjoy. New windows, new roof, new central heating, new lift, new conference room floor, new ground floor kitchen and amazing new media facilities in the basement, WOW!!! . Thanks so much to everyone who has stuck with us whilst this work is being done, it is all due for completion by the end of March. If you are interested the pop by and take a look....
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15 January 2010

The snow has thawed and the centre is now open again with all activities running as normal. ...
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13 January 2010

Please be aware that some classes at the centre are being cancelled due to the current weather situation. If you need clarification please call the class or group leader in the first instance. If you are running a class and want to check whether the centre will be open please call the centre office on 01225 423014. If you have booked a creche or childcare service and need to cancel please call the creche coordinator or office as soon as possible so that staff can be informed. Many thanks....
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16 December 2009

After an eventful year filled with vibrant events and activities, the centre will be closing it's doors for a well deserved break from Friday 18th December. Activities will resume as normal from Monday 4th January. The Percy Centre team would like to wish everyone a happy holiday and look forward to seeing you again in 2010. ...
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1 December 2009

We are thrilled to have had a successful Ofsted inspection at our After School Club recently (based at St Andrews School). The childcare setting was awarded an overall 'good' rating by the inspector and rated 'outstanding' in areas such as the effectiveness in which the setting promotes equality and diversity, the effectiveness of partnerships, effectiveness engaging with parents and the extent to which children make a positive contribution. Play staff Nereida Olives and Tom Cook deserve full...
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18 November 2009

Our 2009 community workshops are now at their end and to celebrate the programme we are holding one final event on Friday (20th November) from 4.30-6.30pm at the Percy Centre. You can take part in mini workshops such as drumming, clay modelling, face painting and making festive swags. You can also enjoy a range of warming autumn refreshments including hot sausages with apple sauce and baked apples. We look forward to seeing you there! ...
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5 November 2009

The half term that has just passed saw a jam packed schedule for the music studio and the, still under construction, Media Suite. Black Families Education Support Group, Percy's own 'Perceptions Project' and Suited and Booted were all in together helping young people to create music photography and film. The final products are not in yet but we soon hope to be able to show you examples of some of the media that has been produced. Meanwhile, work in the studio and media suite continues. Now...
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24 October 2009

Our 2009 community workshop programme (funded by Awards For All Lottery Fund) is now coming to an end. To celebrate the programme and bring everyone together again, we are planning a big event next month. This will include a range of small workshops, food, games and music. There will be an opportunity to tell us what you thought worked well (or not so well) and what ideas you have for future workshops. Watch this space for more information!...
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24 October 2009

Percy Community Centre has received a special award from the The Children’s Society. The Children's Rights Charter has been awarded to the centre for the way it involves children in making decisions in all of its projects. The two main principles of the Charter are that children have the right to give their views and ideas to shape and develop services that are important to them, and they have the right to complain and get things sorted if they feel something has gone wrong. Children's...
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11 September 2009

We have installed a new notice board at Lampard Buildings off of Julian road to provide up to date information about what is going on in the local community. The 'Play Point' has been funded by th Quartet Safer and Stronger Communities fund and was put up by Somer Housing. It will help children and young people to keep up to date about events and activities in Kingsmead. Children can also meet our play workers at the play point on Monday afternoons between 4.00-6.00pm for fun and games!...
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11 September 2009

The Young People of the Percy Youth Project (PYP) made their mark on the Centre last friday in a joint 'Urban Art' project organised by Percy and the city centre Police Community Support Officers with funding from Crime Beat. The weather held out and we spent a day under the guidance of professional mural artist Lee Kirby (www.fliptmurals.co.uk) painting a fantastic Percy mural covering the length of the driveway....
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20 August 2009

The street party we had on New King Street (just outside the Centre) on 08/08/09 in partnership with Somer Community Housing Trust and other Local groups was a huge success, partly due to us, but mostly down to the fantastic weather and the great cooperation from local residents in clearing all the cars and letting us transform the street in to a real community space for a day. It gave a chance for all the diverse things that are normally contained within our walls to spill out and let the...
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27 July 2009

Here is the latest on the street party. Thanks to Somer Community Housing Trust stepping as a major funder we now have enough resources to really get going. We will have a stage with live music and DJ sets from local bands, many of whom are based at Percy, including the Rainbow Steel Orchestra. There will be giant junk modelling, break dancing, a bouncy castle, face painting and lots of other activities all free. We will be giving out free juice and water and you will be able to buy wonderful...
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20 July 2009

The Percy Community Centre are expanding their facilities once again thanks to a successful funding application to Youth Bank. As part of the MediaPlayers group along with Suited and Booted, Black Families Education Support Group, Sound Knowledge and Media art Bath we have secured £14,000 to construct a Video Suite to house film editing and screening facilities. This will represent a significant increase in the capacity of these organisations to deliver exiting and up to date media projects...
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21 June 2009

In January of 2009 the Percy Centre received funding from Quartet to 'Re-Brand' the community centre and help increase our public profile. This glorious new website is part of our roll out from this funding. The new logo design has been kindly donated by local publishing company Faragher Jones www.faragherjones.com and the website designed and produced by www.tallhat.com, also in Bath. You will now be able to view our online event calender and keep up to date with the constant bustle...
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10 June 2009

The Percy Community Centre, in partnership with other local organisations, would like to organise a Community Street Party in New King Street this summer. It would be held on Saturday 8th of August between 11.00 am and 5.00 pm and would require the closure of the street and suspension of parking. While it will be open to everyone, its focus will be on the residents of Kingsmead and Lansdown, specifically New King Street and the surrounding streets. We held an open public consultation on...
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18 May 2009

You can now get information about exciting events, news and workshops sent direct to your mobile phone by registering with our new text alert service.  Just text 'PERCY' to 60300 to register (this is the cost of one text message) and you will then hear from us (at no extra cost) everytime there is something worth knowing! ...
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