ALPHA 1 CLUBS
ALPHA ONE ACTIVITY CLUBS
We're a group entirely led and run by user members, and assisted by volunteers. We have no paid staff, and the volunteers gain useful work experience which builds their confidence, and in turn they help those in need.
Art group at work
We firmly believe that inactivity is a detrimental to a persons good physical and more importantly mental health well being and that a activity club greatly encourages social interaction and meaningful communication.
We prefer to use more traditional practical hands on activities. For the last six years we have been responsible for reg charity 1117933 in the West London area and from its origins as an art group we have initiated other activities such as sewing and machining, making and mending curtains, covers, and clothing etc. We have had indoor and outdoor exercise groups set to live music in the summer months. Other recorded music played by our DJ in difference formats such as vinyl records especially during our four hour art group sessions. Other activities were taking responsibility for basic cleaning and mopping of floors, recycling waste and disposal, litter picking, and cutting grass. We also had days out and eating together over a subsidised meal and organised parties on special occasions.
Day out in Oxford outside the Ashmolem
Alpha One Activity Clubs is entirely a user led and run group with no paid staff. We initiated the use of volunteers from registered bureaus, and the volunteers were to gain useful work experience and confidence building while helping other. Many of our volunteers went on to eventually gain useful paid employment.
We are to move away from a grant funded group which we were originally to a more self-sufficient one through Alpha One Association, raising money for the charity through it's affordable holidays initiative in Somerset. This will help fund its progress into initiating an activity group for young unemployed people as well as for older people coping with mental ill health.
Other notable activities that the charity was involved in was being commissioned by the Southall Sikh community group to produce artwork for their women in history exhibition, which we attended and produced artwork for a local church festival. We've organised one day coach trips, which has included a day out in Brighton.
OUR HISTORY AND WORK
We're sponsored and supported by the local business anon, Susan & Jeffrey Farrance, Ronald Edge,
Susan & Adrian Thomas as well as the following organisations:
Soteria Christian
Fellowship