On June 22nd, Chapel St’s Phil Bywater (Finance Manager) and Russell Rook (CEO), will be lacing up their trail shoes to take on a gruelling, two-day, 69 mile, running challenge along Hadrian’s Wall: The Wall Ultra Run. Their run wil start at Carlisle Castle and finish at the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in Newcastle, taking in [...]
Department for Education gives go ahead for new primary Free School for families in Merton and Kingston
The Secretary of State for Education has approved a proposal made by a local charity, the Chapel St Community Schools Trust, to open a new primary school for Merton and Kingston under the government’s Free School programme. The school will be known as Park Community School and serve families in Raynes Park, Mostpur Park and [...]
Department for Education gives go ahead for Burnley High School
The Department for Education has approved a proposal for a new secondary Free School, with sixth form, for Burnley. The proposal to create Burnley High School, developed by local leaders and community groups in conjunction with the sponsor Chapel St Schools Trust, will now move into implementation with a view to opening in September 2014. [...]
Chapel St opens up new volunteering opportunites
In recent weeks, Chapel St have been opening up new volunteering opportunities to work with two new community projects in South West London called ‘MumPlusMum’ and ‘Link Line’. MumPlusMum is a mentoring network supporting mums-to-be and new mums. Link Line is a telephone care and errand service aimed at providing extra support services to people [...]
MumPlusMum develops in to new areas
MumPlusMum is a mentoring project that connects mums with mums. Chapel St have been running the project in Fulham alongside the Cassidy Medical Centre, for almost a year and are now developing the initiative in Roehampton. The aim is to develop a network of mum’s that can provide support, friendly advice and a listening ear [...]
Job Opportunity: Reception Teacher at Tyndale Community School
Chapel St are the school sponsor for Tyndale Community School – a new primary Free School, preparing to open in September 2013. We have now opened our recruitment process for Reception Teachers to join our professional and dedicated team. If you are looking for your next professional challenge and are excited by the prospect of [...]
Job Opportunity: Business Development Manager with Link Line
Chapel St are currently recruiting for two dynamic, determined and experienced Business Development Managers, to launch, develop and drive an exciting new social enterprise project to the next level. There are two part-time positions. ‘Link Line’ is a new social enterprise being launched by Chapel St, in Fulham. Working with funding from the Big Lottery, [...]
Community Connections
Work to extend the impact of Chapel St’s Fulham health centre in to community life has taken another step on, with the recent launch of Community Connections. Chapel St are developing MumPlusMum – a new mentoring scheme for mums-to-be and new mums, along with a telephone support and errand service called Link Line. The programmes [...]
Everyone’s a VIP – A Christmas Message from Chapel St
Everyone’s a VIP ‘Everyone’s a VIP,’ is what one of our project partners said recently, when we were discussing what’s special about a Chapel St school. ‘From pupils to their families and carers, the school staff or broader community, Chapel St schools should be places in which every person is celebrated and which will make [...]
Chapel St’s Annual Review 2012
Read the Chapel St Annual Review of 2012. In this latest Chapter of the Chapel St story, we give you the headlines on how we’re making change happen in community life, through education, health and family provision. Read about: Link Line – a developing initiative to reach out to the isolated elderly. How Chapel St [...]