Spotland Community Association shines bright with a Quality in Action Award!

Our Community Team in Rochdale were thrilled to be handing over another Quality in Action Award earlier this week, this time to the amazing team at Spotland Community Association (SCA).

Action Together Community Development Worker Julie, has guided the SCA team through the process to achieving recognition, and this accreditation is proof that their hard work and commitment to safeguarding, quality, and improvement have truly paid off.

Established back in 1996, Spotland Community Association is a registered charity, helping and supporting the disadvantaged and deprived communities around Spotland and Lower Falinge. They offer a wide range of diverse, community projects including support, advice and guidance around welfare rights/benefits, education, training and social inclusion activities to improve the overall quality of life.

Find out more about SCA and their fantastic community projects: www.spotlandcommunitycentre.co.uk

We spoke with Asghar, and Molly Deakin, Community Development Worker for Rochdale Community Centre Consortium about the work they do and how the support of Action Together has helped them in their journey to accreditation...

"I have been the manager here at Spotland Community Association for 10 years and have seen a lot of changes in this time. We have seen the community change from traditionally a Pakistani community to now being a community which represents all different backgrounds, faiths and cultures (Somalian, Arabic, eastern European to name a few).

Here at SCA we have had to adapt to this change so that we can cater for all our service users. We thrive in providing a warm, friendly, safe learning environment for all. We focus heavily on social inclusion so that service users do not face isolation which can lead to other problems. We encourage learner participation and provide a bi-lingual service where possible. Everyone is welcome here at SCA!

We are extremely proud to have achieved this Quality in Action Award, and are hugely grateful to Action Together in their support throughout this journey, namely Julie Durrant. Action Together, as always, have been fantastic!

We also want to thank all our staff, volunteers and partner organisations such as New Pioneers Team, and Deeplish Community Centre for their assistance."

Asghar Ali | Manager of Spotland Community Association