Stockwell Green Community Services (SGCS) is a community-based voluntary
organisation rendering its services since 1999 to the disadvantaged and
socially excluded members of the community with multi - ethnic background. Our
expertise is in understanding the needs faced by communities, and then designing
innovative programmes in partnership with local authorities and local
stakeholders to address these issues. Our focus is in employability
enhancement, social housing, local regeneration and education.
We are well known for the proprietary models we
have designed to address the root causes of some of the biggest challenges
faced by local communities in London, the Midlands and Yorkshire. In counter
radicalisation, these are the Community Ownership Model and Triangular
Model of Engagement and Containment which are the fundamental basis of all
the work that SGCS conducts.
SGCS started as a small organisation in Stockwell,
London Borough of Lambeth, but has grown into a large organisation, working
across the country offering a range of community services. SGCS is a lead partner
with Ash-Shahada Housing Association (a local Registered Social Landlord) and
has played a pivotal role in it’s success and expansion over the years. SGCS
has also been funded by numerous statutory bodies (Home Office, Met Police,
European Union, local councils etc) to deliver a variety of community projects
aimed at tackling homelessness, unemployment and crime. In housing, we have
created a proprietary Supported Accommodation Model and Supported Living
Property Model, which meet the needs of vulnerable people suffering from mental
health, homelessness, domestic violence and other vulnerable groups. Click here
to find out more about our housing models. We have made “sustainable
development” a key to our management ethos so that it becomes part and parcel
of societal growth.
SGCS was the first organisation to design an
EU-funded project called SEED (Support for Employability Enhancement and
Development [2004-2008]), where SGCS was able to help many people into
housing and employment in the recession time. It was later described by
the Office of Deputy Prime Minister as “an innovative and significantly
overachieved” project. It has also been independently evaluated by
Middlesex University, UK.
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