Royds Community Association
Royds Community Association
Royds Enterprise Park
Future Fields
Off Beacon Road,
Bradford BD6 3EW
Website: www.royds.org.uk
Registered Charity and Company limited by guarantee, Royds are a major community led enterprise facilitating renewal and regeneration to deliver sustainable communities both locally and nationally. The Association provides a range of services to meet identified needs of local communities and make a contribution to an improved quality of life for people living in them. Services include: Welfare Benefits and Debt Advice, Environment Programme, Healthy Living, Employment Outreach and Community Development.
Royds was originally an SRB 1 scheme awarded £31 million and funded for 7 years from 1995.
The scheme is and always has been resident led and the Board of Directors, all volunteers are the accountable body. The SRB funding finished in 2002 with all outputs met. Royds was also successful in obtaining SRB 6 funding to build an Enterprise Park. Since then the Association has been successful in obtaining other sources of funding, including Lottery Funding and income from the Enterprise Park along with an increasingly thriving Consultancy.
Royds originally served three council estates in South Bradford with a largely white working class background. Ethnic minority population was less than 1%.
Post SRB Royds works across a larger area of Bradford South and now has an area with diverse communities including of late asylum seekers from across the globe and economic migrants largely from Eastern Europe
The support services we offer are as follows:
- Inspirational Visits
- Neighbourhood Action Planning
- Community Capacity Building
- Creating employment and job opportunities
- Project Development
- Developing and running sustainable environment programmes
- Successful funding bids
- Masterplanning and Community Development in planning
- Consultation and engagement techniques
- Creating sustainable social enterprise models
We have an excellent working relationship with the following groups, organisations and bodies:
- Bradford Vision
- Lidget Green Community Partnership
- Great Horton Community Partnership
- Chain Street residents association
- Ten local neighbourhood action planning groups
- Primary Care Trusts
- Friends of Judy Woods
- Buttershaw Millenium Green Trust
- Khidmat Centre
Contact Details
For more information regarding our Guide Neighbourhood Programme or to arrange a visit please contact:
Marie Copley - Social Programme Manager
Raj Panesar - Project Manager/Deputy Chief Executive
Tel: 01274 414 111
Fax: 01274 414 840
E-mail: marie@royds.org.uk / raj@royds.org.uk