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Winscombe Community Association (WCA) is a registered charity (no. 280231) that maintains and manages Winscombe Community Centre, in order to provide facilities for the local community. To learn more about the work that WCA do, go to the ‘About Us‘ page.

WCA obtains all its income from hiring out the rooms and facilities at the Centre, and from its fund-raising activities. If you are interested in hiring a room at the Centre, please go to the ‘Room Hire‘ page. To find out how you can help us, please go to the ‘Help Us‘ page.

Latest Centre Re-development News

Nov 2023 – WiNSpace get through to next stage for their National Lottery Grant application
We’ve been informed by the National Lottery that our application for £200,000 Grant funding has been taken to the second and final phase of the application process. This is a major step forward for the WiNSpace project. The team now have to put together additional information on the project giving more details on how a new centre will benefit the community. This needs to be submitted by the 31st Dec.

1 Aug 2023: WCA Trustees announce major push to deliver WiNSpace Project in 2024
The Trustees have agreed that we must deliver new facilities as soon as possible and are now preparing to start building in summer 2024.

7 Sept 2023: WCA Final Fundraising Launched
The WiNSpace Team have launch their final push to raise £300,000 from Local Businesses and Individuals

10 Oct 2023: Trustees agree to Appoint a Quantity Surveyor to act as our Project Manager for the Project and to fund the Technical Design work at our Architect to create a Building Speciation and tender document.

Our Next WCA Event at the Centre

Jumble Rumble and Upcycle Sale

It is over 43 years since the old Winscombe School was taken over by a newly founded Community Association and developed to become Winscombe Community Centre. This is a major local asset which continues to serve the community well, but there is always a need to look to the future so we are looking at options to move forward with the possible redevelopment of the community buildings. This project as been called WiNSPACE.

We have regular fund raising events throughout the year use the information below to find out more

And don’t forget there’s a Thursday Market every week

Our Next Events – See more info on our Fund Raising Page