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The Abbey Children's Centre was opened on Friday 8th April by the then Minister
for Children and local MP Margaret Hodge.
The new community building provides a vibrant landmark on a previously
anonymous corner and depressed area of East London. The Abbey Children's
Centre encompasses a fifty place full-time nursery alongside crèche
and drop-off facilities created to complement the training and community
activities that are central to the Government’s Sure Start
programme. A community kitchen with training and refreshment facilities
will create a central hub and activity in the building that will
serve a local community of predominantly first generation immigrants
to the UK.
The building is timber frame, clad in larch and features light filled
spaces that celebrate the community uses being housed. The dark
colour of the elevations is designed to create a backdrop to the
colourful activities played inside and outside the building.
Civic Trust Award 2006
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