Quaggy Development Trust

Key Facts

Location

Greenwich

Project Criteria

Parental Behaviour

Contact

Dawn Jacovou
Email

Project funding

£70,126

Funding round

Round 3

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Aims of the organisation:

The Quaggy Development Trust is a local registered charity providing low cost community services in Greenwich & Lewisham.

Our main objectives include:

• Promotion for the public benefit of urban regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation
• The participation in the government initiative 'Every Child Matters' by means of promoting and running nurseries and children's centres.

Our main activities include:

• Managing Quaggy Children's Centre providing full time affordable day care and a host of integrated services for families Managing Margaret Bondfield Nursery in Plumstead in partnership with Greenwich Council
• Working with Young People
• Providing services for over 50s
• Providing whole community services
• Quaggy Community Counselling Service: individual counselling for adults.

Quaggy Community Counselling Service Extension

Aim of the project:

Quaggy Community Counselling Service ( QCCS) aims to provide a welcoming and confidential counselling service for adults that is accessible to all members of the community. The Parenting Fund grant will be used to extend the work of the Quaggy Community Counselling Service (QCCS) and improve accessibility for parents in the West Ward of Greenwich. This project will extend the service's opening hours at the centre enabling us to engage a second team of volunteer counsellors offering up to 18 additional evening sessions during the week. Extended opening hours will make the service more accessible to parents who work during the daytime and also give more flexibility in offering daytime slots to parents who require crèche services. During Year 2 the project will extend our reach within West Ward through the development of a satellite service located within the extended school cluster. We will also have the capacity to deliver a limited home service for parents who cannot travel.

We will be using the CORE- (Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation ) Information Management System to monitor and evaluate service outcomes.

Project Beneficiaries:

The project will provide individual counselling to 160 Greenwich parents with children under the age of 18 over the two years. The focus is on the West Ward, however, we will offer counselling to parents from other parts of Greenwich on a referral basis.