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Continued Commitment to Real Living Wage

5th September 2022 - Aston-Mansfield celebrates continued commitment to Real Living Wage by becoming accredited as a Living Wage Employer.Read more

Forest Gate Festival

2nd July 2022 - We had an excellent time at the Forest Gate Festival – a community celebration of Forest Gate and beyond.Read more

Staff Away Day

23rd June 2022 - We had a great time at our Staff Away Day on Thursday 23rd June. Staff, Trustees and Volunteers got together to team build and socialise.Read more

SKY Project Round-Up

8th June 2022 - Our SKY (Skills, Knowledge in Youth) project looked to strengthen young people’s employability skills and boost their confidence.Read more

London Youth Bronze Quality Mark

8th June 2022 - Aston Mansfield is delighted to announce that the charity has achieved the London Youth Bronze Quality Mark Award for 2022 to 2025.Read more

Little Manor Play Project at Easter

Office Space in Forest Gate for Hire

Offices for hire in the New Business Centre, Durning Hall

Our update on Durning Hall's redevelopment

Introduction to Prevention Research Partnership (PRP) Adolescent mental health

Second phase of consultation for the Durning Hall site

Consultation of redevelopment of Durning Hall

Online Youth Programme: Wireless 2gether

Recruiting a One Newham Coordinator

Office Space Available for Rent at the Froud Centre

HSBC volunteers take over Forest Gate

The launch of our Training and Employability Network

Summer with the Little Manor Children

The children and staff have thoroughly enjoyed their summer of fun, and we hope to see many of them in our afterschool programme that runs throughout the year.Read more

HeadStart summer sessions

It’s great to see young people engaged in their activities while also making friends.Read more

Flat for rent in the Froud Centre

We are offering residential space for the public to rent. This is a one-bedroom maisonette situated in the Froud Centre, Manor Park.Read more

Fun at the Forest Gate Festival!

On Saturday the 14th, we attended the annual Forest Gate Festival. At our very busy stall, we had arts and crafts, games, and more!Read more

Confidential Helplines

Supporting young people is at the heart of everything we do, if you are experiencing any issues then please get in touch with one of the following helplines. Read more

Forest Gate Community Meeting

In the wake of the youth murders that have happened in Forest Gate, a community meeting organised by local residents took place on May the 14th at Durning Hall.Read more

Transitional Youth Explore London

This Easter, we ran four extra sessions for the young people in our Transitional Youth Project.Read more

One Newham: Bringing together voluntary organisations

Aston-Mansfield alongside other local organisations have played a key role in establishing One Newham. The One Newham vision is to put the people of Newham at its heart. Read more

Inspiring young people at Youth4Youth

We had students attend from a range of different colleges such as Havering Sixth Form college and Newtec. They were passionate, intelligent and very enthusiastic! Read more

Evaluation Exchange celebration

We celebrated the wonderful collaborative work UCL researchers and voluntary organisations have done over the past six months. Read more

Spaces available for rent

We are offering residential and commercial spaces for the public to rent. They are situated on Earlham Grove, Forest Gate.Read more

Fitter Finances Programme

A new and exciting programme we have created to support voluntary organisations in Newham. Read more

Healthy Hearts Bistro Night

A delicious 3-course serving on keeping your heart healthy!Read more

Transitional Youth Project Pilot

The highlights of our NEW Transitional Youth Project, an exciting 2-day holiday programme looking at building successful young adults.Read more

Big Sleepover with LaLit

With kind support form Lalit & City Harvest, Little Manor enjoyed a gourmet meal as part of their latest Big Sleepover!Read more

The Little Manor Loves Hearts project, funded by Heart Research UK, continues at a pace. There are several elements to the project – all delivering informal learning opportunities about different activities and behaviours that can keep our hearts healthy. These are formed of:Read more

Our partners: The Magpie Project

At Aston-Mansfield, we believe in the power of partnership and creating community among organisations with whom we share some of the same aims and values. Read here about The Magpie Project, what they are doing to tackle homelessness in single mothers and how we've helped out. (written by Jayne Williams of The Magpie Project)Read more

SupaPlay Saturday Squidge Special!

Our first SupaPlay Saturday of the year went off with a ...SQUIDGE! Read more about our monthly free family events, designed to encourage community cohesion, adventure and a love of outside play!Read more

Little Manor Loves Hearts

Back in October, the children at our After School Club kicked off the Little Manor Loves Hearts programme funded by Heart Research UK. The programme aims to educate and inform the children on how a healthy lifestyle can contribute to a healthy heart and the long-term benefits this yields. The activities are delivered in an exciting and fun way.Read more

Little Manor Make Mosaic mirrors!

During the Easter holidays, children from the Little Manor Play Project got to channel their inner interior designer and try their hands at DIY home décor by creating their own mosaic mirrors. A great big thank you to staff from Willis Towers Watson who gave their time to come and support this activity!Read more

A very Aston-Mansfield Summer!

A round up of a very Aston-Mansfield summer, including the action packed six week long youth and children's programme!Read more

Fuller Futures and our art auction.

July and August were all about raising money for our Young Achievers Group for young disabled people in Newham. With an online campaign and a star studded art auction, we have been able to raise lots of funds to support our group!Read more

Community fun day and fundraiser! What a success.

A real community get together! Thank you Forest Gate for a wonderful day and for helping to raise funds for our hall!Read more

Little Einstein’s at Little Manor!

Strange things were going on in the Sports Hall at the Froud Centre on Monday 15th February.Read more

We love to ride our bicycles

One of our main focuses across our work with Children is health and wellbeing, another is learning through play. Cycling is a brilliant way to combine the two!Read more

Volunteering is powerful

Voluntary action that benefits others – how can that not be powerful?Read more

Aston-Mansfield. Standing Strong

Aston-Mansfield has been standing strong and helping to build stronger communities for over 130 years, we are looking to you to help us to do more. A few words from Claire Helman, our CEO.Read more

ESOL Online directory launch!

A new way to find English lessons and ESOL courses in the borough of Newham.Read more

October holidays with Little Manor

A little insight to our action packed half term with our Little Manor group. Never a dull day with activities and fun filling every moment!Read more

A big Thank you!

Aston-Mansfield has been working with the Prince’s Trust to help spruce up Durning Hall. We are really grateful to the Prince’s Trust from Newham College for the amazing job they did painting around Durning Hall.Read more

Community Space Available!

Affordable space available at both our centres now.Read more

Ofsted Inspection for Little Manor Play Project

We are delighted that our children's work recently had an inspection where we achieved the highest possible rating for a part inspection.Read more

Celebrating 25 years of the Froud Centre

On Wednesday we marked the 25th anniversary of the opening of our Froud Community Centre with a packed day of activities.Read more

June & July SupaPlay Saturdays!

SupaPlay Saturdays are a series of exciting and free drop-in play events for primary school aged children and their families.Read more

The Value of Shared Community Spaces

In Manor Park, Newham, we run The Froud Centre, a purpose built community centre which shares the building with St. Michael’s & All Angels Church.Read more

Join us for a Sunny Afternoon

We are delighted to be celebrating the 25th Birthday of our Froud Centre next month, and to celebrate we will be throwing open our doors to the local community on a Wednesday afternoon!Read more

3, 2, 1...Blast Off!

The latest SupaPlay Saturday reached new heights as children and parents made unique pieces of art by launching paint rockets high into the air resulting in a satisfying splurge of paint onto their canvasses below!Read more

Thanks to our amazing supporters!

We are grateful to the 99 people who backed our campaign for Paris and helped us exceed our target of £6,000! We couldn’t have done it without you.Read more

What a night!

A whopping 70 people turned up last night at Stratford East Picture House for our community screening of the film, Pride.Read more

How your donations help

In case you’ve somehow missed it, we’re crowdfunding to raise funds for our LGBT youth group, Paris.Read more

Come & watch Pride with us!

Join us for a community screening of the Pride film to help raise money for ‘Paris‘, our LGBT Youth Group. We’re pleased to say our screening is now confirmed!Read more

Paris Crowdfunder Launch Event

Saturday saw the launch event for our Crowdfunding campaign. Clapton Ultras, the supporters group for Forest Gate football team Clapton FC, planned & ran a Football vs. Homophobia match against Basildon complete with rainbow flares, flags & awesome pies!Read more