Southend
25 November 2024
Project Manager Contact: graham@teamviy.com
Project Overview
VIY partnered with St Edmunds Community Hall to refurbish and refresh the main hall, stage area, reception, and meeting room, spaces that have gone without significant updates for nearly 20 years. The renovations aimed to create a more appealing and functional environment for current and future users, helping to attract new audiences, increase hall hire revenue, and ensure the sustainability of this vital community hub.
Located in a deprived area of Southend, St Edmunds Hall is managed by trustees and volunteers, offering affordable facilities for various community groups, including fitness classes, youth programs, cultural events, and healthy living sessions. This project provided an essential uplift, ensuring the hall remains accessible and affordable for disadvantaged groups while adapting to rising operating costs.
WhatCabin Leicester
25 November 2024
Youth Engagement Contact: casey@teamviy.com
Project Overview
The project at St Matthews Children’s Action Group (WhatCabin) involved painting the interior and exterior of the building, which hadn’t been refreshed in over 15 years. Interior repainting replaced outdated, garish primary colours with calming tones proven to benefit children’s mood and focus, creating a more welcoming environment for alternative provision classes. Exterior updates aimed to uplift the space, encouraging more families to use the venue.
Retrofitting measures included installing secondary glazing, improving draught exclusion on external doors, and adding water-saving devices, making the building more comfortable, energy-efficient, and cost-effective. These improvements align with the group’s mission to provide free, inclusive play sessions and activities for children aged 5-12 in a welcoming, supportive environment.
Since 1989, the WhatCabin has served as a vital community hub, offering workshops, social events, and free play schemes where children can explore sports, art, self-esteem building, and more, while shaping their own experiences through participation.
Boston Local Community Centre
25 November 2024
Youth Engagement Contact: jess@teamviy.com
Project Overview
The project involved internal and external decoration, installing several raised planters, and enhancing a community hub to support various local groups.
Peggotty Road Community Centre
25 November 2024
Project Manager Contact: mick@teamviy.com
Project Overview
St Mary’s Church Hall
25 November 2024
Project Manager Contact: mick@teamviy.com
Project Overview
Door 84
10 June 2024
Door 84 provides an innovative, welcoming, and stimulating environment that offers children, young people, and the community a wide range of social and developmental opportunities that are supportive, challenging, and fun.
Project Contact: Matt Mellor, email matt@teamviy.com
St Andrew’s Mission Hall
23 October 2024
Be the Change 2025
17 December 2024
Project Manager Contact: danny@teamviy.com
Project Overview
Be The Change is an award-winning youth organisation based in Bolton, dedicated to empowering young people to become a positive force for change.
As part of this project, VIY will contribute to the ongoing development of the new Be The Change Youth Centre by creating a podcasting room, a computer studio, and a counselling room on the upper floor of the building.
This work will enable the venue to allocate resources to other areas, such as providing computers and equipment for the new spaces. Each room in the building is sponsored by a company, and this project will stand as VIY’s lasting legacy within the centre.
YMCA Nottingham
17 December 2024
Project Manager Contact: rachel@teamviy.com
The YMCA project involves removing and soundproofing a door, adding skirting and blackboard paint for a noticeboard area, and removing three TVs for reuse. A breakfast bar/desk area will be created with a cupboard and lockable pedestal. Draught-proofing strips and roller blinds will be installed, and some existing fixtures will be removed
King’s Lynn Family Centre
26 November 2024
Project Manager Contact: mick@teamviy.com
Youth Engagement Contact: jojo@teamviy.com
Project Overview
The project involves rebuilding a leaking shelter to improve its functionality, securing a timber handrail on a ramp for safety, constructing two timber play walls, and providing protective covers for tire sandpits. These enhancements will create safer and more versatile play areas, expand activity options, and increase usability in wet conditions, ultimately supporting the venue’s appeal and promoting its family-centred offerings.
The venue serves as a family centre providing childcare and various activities/classes for young children.
