The Williamstown Community and Education Centre (WCEC) is renowned for the help it provides to people in Hobsons Bay and now that help is extending to other community centres too.
After receiving a grant from the Melbourne Airport Authority, the WCEC has set about rejuvenating the Spotswood Community House on Melbourne Road which has endured a tough few years.
WCEC’s education co-ordinator Lynn Hewet is leading the rejuvenation efforts and explained why the Spotswood Community House needed their help.
“It’s (the community house) between Spotswood Primary School and the new Union Quarter development and while that building was happening, there was a lot of upheaval, there was dirt, there was dust, there was traffic and it just meant a lot of the programs running at Spotswood had to be relocated,” said Ms Hewet.
“And it was on the back of Covid so it meant numbers dropped dramatically.”
Many of the programs that relocated from Spotswood went to WCEC and are now being sent back, including English language classes, boat license classes, art groups for people with disabilities and a playgroup that supports parents of children with disabilities.
Having started the rejuvenation efforts in October last year, Ms Hewet said good progress had been made, but they still had a way to go to get numbers attending the Spotswood Community House back to where they used to be.
“At its peak we were probably having 80 to 100 through a week and at the moment we 30 to 40 so we’ve still got a way to go.”
Details: https://www.williamstown-spotswoodcc.org.au/
