Arc In The Park

Arc In The Park Arc In The Park, at Hermit Road Recreation Ground in Canning Town is a fully open access adventure p

A Stepping Stone To Inclusion:
Arc In The Park is an exciting project for children and young people with disabilities and/or additional needs which offers a year-round, seven days a week programme of clubs, activities and services focused on preparing, enabling and supporting young people into inclusive opportunities and positive progression in Newham, East London. Arc In The Park is a safe, fully

accessible and enabling hub. The centre has medium and large activity spaces, a group work and training space, a multi-sensory room, computer suite, music area, kitchen and chill-out spac. Outdoors the centre has the largest adventure play space in London. It has a challenge course with ten obstacles or challenges, gardening and raised flower beds, incouding a hidden garden space, a water feature that gets everyone wet in the summer and a sports space. Arc In The Park offers opportunities to children and young people and their families each year. We offer services to individuals experiencing disabilities from across the whole spectrum including learning disabilities, visual and hearing disabilities, autism, asbergers, combined and multi disability. Our services respond to all levels of severity of disabilities from individuals with mild conditions to young people with severe and/or challenging behaviour to require one to one support. Additionally, we offer services to young people with life-limiting conditions. Lastly, we are developing innovative and successful community-based support programmes for young people who are mentally ill. Arc In The Park provides the only structured activities for all those attending. All our young people have, within the overall programme, their own personal development plan and targets to be achieved. Our aims for each young person, regardless of their degree of need is to:
* Raise personal confidence, esteem and belief to enable positive and sustained progression into inclusive opportunities.
* To contribute and support each young person to achieve their full attainment, personally, socially and educationally.
* To enable each young person to have a good time within a safe and supportive environment. Arc In The Park Needs

Help to fund our year-round after school clubs, weekender clubs, youth groups, sports activities, holiday schemes or early steps work with the under fours and our bridging programmes supporting young people in their transition to inclusion. Help through funds to keep our buildings and resources up to date and fit for purpose, for new resources and equipment to enable Arc to work with young people and to maintain the specialist resources we need to help all children with needs towards inclusion. Help through volunteers to help with various clubs and programmes, and volunteers to help maintain the buildings and grounds and to help build new resources and facilities. If you are interested in helping, supporting or just want to find out more, please contact Arc Manager Paula Blake or Kevin Jenkins, Community Links Life President. Email kevin.jenkins [email protected] or phone (020) 7511 4253 or 07860 487727

12/11/2025

This page is now closed. Please do not post in this page or make any comments.
Please go to the Ambition, Aspire, Achieve page for information on our charity.
Thank you.

06/02/2023

From 2023. Due to ongoing problems, it has been decided to amalgamate Ambition, Aspire, Achieve's three pages into one.
Future posts for the Terence Brown Arc In The Park and the Glyn Hopkin Abbey Hub will from tomorrow appear on our main Facebook channel Ambition, Aspire, Achieve.
This page, and our Arc In The Park site will stay live to maintain the archive we have created over the last six years. We hope this doesn't cause our regular viewers any problems.
See you over on Ambition, Aspire, Achieve from tomorrow. Thank you.

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Today we're celebrating James Baldwin (1924-1987), an American writer who won acclaim for his work across several mediums, including
essays, novels, plays, and poems. Much of his work
centred around his observations and life experience ofracial segregation in America.
Shortly after graduatingfrom high school in 1942, Baldwin was compelled to find work to help support his brothers and sisters; Baldwin took a job in the defence industry in Belle Meade, New Jersey.
There, not for the first time, he was confronted with
racism, discrimination, and the debilitating regulations of segregation. The experiences in New Jersey were closely followed by his stepfather's death, after which he became determined to make writing his sole profession. He moved to Greenwich Village, New York City and began to write a novel, supporting himself by performing various odd jobs. In 1944 he met author Richard Wright, who helped him to land the 1945 Eugene F. Saxton fellowship.
Despite the fellowship's financial freedom, Baldwin could not complete his novel that year. Eventually, in 1948, he moved to Paris, using funds from a Rosenwald Foundation fellowship to pay for his passage. Most critics feel that this journey abroad was fundamental to Baldwin's development
as an author. Through some difficult financial and
emotional periods, Baldwin undertook a process of self- realisation that included both an acceptance of his heritage and of his bisexuality. While in France, he wrote essays critiquing race, sexuality and class structures. He brought to light the challenges and complexities black and no LGBT+ people faced at the time. Sadly, he died in 1987 at
the age of 63 from cancer and is considered one of the 20th century's greatest writers.
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Today we're celebrating Marsha P Johnson (1945 - 1992), an African-American gay man and
drag artist and a trans-rights activist whose activism in the 1960s and 70s hugely impacted the LGBTQ+ community.
They played a significant role in important moments for the LGBTQ+ movement, such as the Stonewall protests. During the '60s and '70s, being gay was classified as a mental illness in the United States. Gay people were regularly threatened and beaten by police and shunned by many. In June 1969, police raided a gay bar in New York called The
Stonewall Inn. The police forced over 200 people out of the bar and onto the streets and then used excessive violence against them.
Marsha, living and working in New York then, was one of the key figures who stood up to the police
during the raids. Marsha resisted arrest but led a series of protests and riots in the following days demanding rights for gay people. A month after the protests, the first openly gay march took place in New York; even though the Stonewall riots kick-started support for the LGBT+ community, there was still lots of discrimination.
Marsha and good friend Sylvia Rivera, who was also an activist, founded STAR - Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries - an organisation to support gay and trans individuals who had been left homeless. Much of Marsha's life was dedicated to helping others, despite suffering from several
mental health issues. Marsha went missing in 1992, and six days later, police found Marsha's body. They said nobody else had been responsible for the death. But many friendsargued this ruling at the time, saying attacks on gay and trans people were common. Twenty years later, in 2012, campaigner Mariah Lopez successfully got the New York
police department to reopen Marsha's case as a possible murder. After the NYPD reopened the case, the police reclassified Johnson's cause of death from “suicide" to undetermined.
Marsha's legacy lives on today in organisations such as the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, which exists to "protects and defends the human rights of black transgender people"
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01/02/2023

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Throughout February, we will be celebrating LGBT+
History Month. Founded by Schools Out, LGBT+
History Month marks the abolishment of Section 28
in 2003. Section 28 was part of the Local
Government Act 1988, which stated that a local
authority "shall not intentionally promote
homosexuality or publish material with the intention
of promoting homosexuality" or “promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship".
This resulted in teachers and other school staff becoming fearful of doing what they knew and felt was the right thing.
Throughout the month, we will be highlighting prominent figures from the LGBT+ community as part of their initiative toclaim their past, celebrate the present and create thefuture. +

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Our Garden Rangers group took part in the
RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch around
Hermit Road Park. Details on the RSPB here:
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Hermit Road Park, Bethell Avenue
London
E164JT

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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0207511425307860487727

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