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The Abbey Children's Centre was opened on Friday 8th April by the then Minister
for Children and local MP. Civic Trust Award 2006
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
creates a central hub and activity in the building which
serves 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.
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