Queen's Crescent Community Centre in Camden, north London, has been given £35,000 by the local authority to continue to run drop-in classes for parents in IT and English as a second language as well as a creche.
The centre applied for the funding back in November but has only just heard that it can continue to run services. Camden Council is carrying out a review of community involvement and has warned some services may get less funding in future or even be decommissioned.
Foyezur Miah, head of the centre, told CYP Now without the funding the centre would have had to close. Now the money has been secured Sally Gimson, a director of the centre, said: "We are very, very pleased that Camden has recognised the good work we are doing and the success we have with familes."
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