Community venues, run with purpose
Your venue.
Our team.
Shared impact.
Affordable activities local people want. Income that helps fund the support their community needs. A skilled team to make it happen.
The West Faversham approach
A centre like ours. In your community.
West Faversham works because people have a reason to come in, someone they trust when they need help, and a say in what happens next. Affordable leisure, room hire and family activities help generate income for youth work, wellbeing and practical community support.
We bring the people, strategy and operating standards behind that model to your venue. We run the centre, develop its staff and shape the services around your community and the income your building can generate.
48 community activities each week
In 2024–25, with the programme shaped by local needs and feedback.
A complete operation
The daily workload with us. The impact shared.
We recruit, train and lead the staff. We manage the finances, safety, safeguarding and service development. Your board has a clear relationship with our CEO and senior leaders.
Income management
Affordable services that people use and return to.
Community services
Youth work, family support, wellbeing and connection.
Funding and development
Actively finding grants to grow what your centre can offer.
Standards and accountability
Skilled managers doing the work and reporting to your board.
A route to local independence
We get it established. Your community takes it forward.
Want a locally run centre, but need experienced people to get it there? We can set up the operation, train your board and develop local leadership staff who are ready to manage it.
As confidence and capability grow, we step back in stages. You gain a working centre and a team able to lead it, with our support tapering down to consultancy.
1. Establish the centre
We put the strategy, staff, timetable, trading activity and operating systems in place.
2. Train the board
We develop trustees’ confidence in finance, risk, safeguarding oversight, strategy and holding their manager to account.
3. Develop local leaders
We recruit and coach local managers, using shadowing, training and supervised responsibility to build a team ready to lead.
4. Taper our support
We move from direct management to mentoring and reviews, then to consultancy as the board and team take over.
Built through practice
People who know what it takes.
Our team has built community services from the ground up at West Faversham and other sites. We bring charity leadership, commercial experience, safeguarding, finance and staff development together around one purpose: a centre that works for local people.