Chapel St are creating a new project to operate alongside the Cassidy Medical Centre and Health Hub in Fulham. The ‘Happy Healthy Fulham’ initiative will be funded through a grant made through the Big Lottery Fund’s ‘Reaching Communities’ committee. The project’s aim is to improve health and wellbeing for the elderly, vulnerable adults, teenagers and [...]

Chapel St’s community development workers at the Cassidy Road Medical Centre and Health Hub are currently working on the development of a new programme called Mum + Mum. Designed to connect mums with mums, the programme will aim to offer mentoring and support for mums-to-be and new mums.  The scheme will run for people from [...]

Atherton Community School has now received confirmation from Wigan Council that the preferred sites for our new school have been approved. Following a cabinet meeting by Wigan Council, the Local Authority have agreed to the lease of both Atherton Town Hall to be used as a temporary site for the first year of the school’s [...]

Chapel St has recently received confirmation that the Schools Commissioner at the Department for Education considers Chapel St to be an appropriate organisation to sponsor an academy. It is the Office of the School Commissioner’s role to consider which sponsors will provide the best possible solution for a particular school(s), and Ministers make a final [...]

The Chapel St team are now in full swing for 2012. We’re preparing to open our first Free School in Atherton this September, bidding to open new schools in 2013 and continuing to develop the work of our Family Hub in Roehampton and our Health Hub in Fulham. As we look forward to all that [...]

Plans for Atherton Community School continue to progress and Chapel St are pleased to announce the appointment of Elizabeth Haddock as the Principal Designate of the new school, which is due to open this September. Elizabeth will soon be taking up her role, in order to get fully immersed in the plans and preparations for [...]