Awarded

Community Skills and Enterprise Project, Worcester - Design Team Services

Descriptions

The Community Skills and Enterprise Project (CS&E) is one of five priority projects identifiedin the Town Investment Plan (TIP).The aim of the CS&E is to enhance the adult education offered in the city by expandinginclusive training facilities at existing community centres with a focus on teaching vocationalskills. The community centres play an important role supporting Worcester’s deprivedcommunities providing general community and youth activities.The key outputs expected to arise upon completion of the CS&E are:• Refurbishment, extension or reconfiguration of buildings;• Provision of digital infrastructure and vocational training equipment;• Increase in capacity and accessibility to new or improved skills facilities for deprived areasof Worcester;• 1 established training network;• 4,377 learners achieving entry level, VQ level 1, 2, 3 qualifications over the first 5 years.Page 4 to 9The CS&E is a joint undertaking between Worcester City Council (WCC) and WorcesterCommunity Trust (WCT). WCT is a registered charity that runs six Community Hubs in theCity of Worcester providing facilities for community use. The capital delivery phase will beled by WCC including procurement of all works required to deliver the project. Training willbe led by WCT.This commission is for the provision of the Design Team services required for the delivery ofbuilding facilities to enable training and established community uses at five communitycentres included in the CS&E as follows:1. Dines Green community centre• Delivery of a new, purpose-built unit – Building Block 2 - to house a new, construction andgreen technology skills centre;2. Horizon community centre• Delivery of a building extension to create a room suitable to enable skills training in aclassroom environment;3. King George V Community Centre• Change the ambience of the existing reception area using decoration/wall art, modularfurniture and lighting;4. Ronkswood Community Centre• Delivery of a building extension to create a room suitable to enable skills training in aclassroom environment;• Reconfigure existing changing rooms to meeting rooms;• Creatively re-organise the existing reception space;5. Tolladine Community Centre• Reconfigure the existing ‘Sure Start’ room to divide into two separate, linked rooms.