New Avenues Youth and Community Project

Welcome to New Avenues

Councillor Helal Abbas Uddin

Introduction

"New Avenues Youth and Community Project is set to continue the tradition and standards of its predecessor, Avenues Unlimited, with whom I have many years of valuable and positive association dating back to the 1980s, first as a user, then as a volunteer and later in a paid capacity. New Avenues, with its focus on Spitalfields, one of the most deprived inner city areas in the country, has successfully embarked on a range of innovative projects aimed at relieving social exclusion, creating opportunities and raising confidence for the Bangladeshi and Somali communities. Its emphasis on drawing in women and young girls within these communities is long overdue and very welcome. New Avenues has my full support and I look forward to a long and fruitful partnership with them."

Councillor Helal Abbas Uddin
Leader of Tower Hamlets Council

Welcome to the New Avenues website. Please use the menu to the left to navigate the website — you will find details of all our projects, events and publications, and information on how you can join in. If you have any questions about any of our activities, please contact us —

Telephone: 020072470933/1040

E-mail: infor@newavenues.org.uk

otherwise, why not drop by our offices?

History of the New Avenues Youth and Community Project

Avenues Unlimited ran under the umbrella organisation of the YWCA in the area since the mid-sixties. In 2000 the YWCA withdrew funding from all projects not working exclusively with women. To maintain the holistic approach to working with women within a context of the whole community, i.e. including brothers and fathers, Avenues Unlimited had to decide whether to continue without the YWCA or to change the focus completely. New Avenues was created as an independent charity in June 2000 and company limited by guarantee.

Until June 2002, when the Community Fund gave the three year grant, the project existed on limited funding from various Trusts including the Spitalfield Market Community Trust, the Wakefield Trust and others. The project continues to rely on a wide range of funding including a mainstream grant from London Borough of Tower Hamlets.