A centre for young people with special educational needs is to be built in Eltham at the home of the Wide Horizons charity, which collapsed amid acrimony five years ago, Greenwich Council has confirmed. The council plans to knock down the old facilities at Bexley Road and build a transitional learning facility for people up […]
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Reopen outdoor education centre that was visited by royalty, Greenwich Council told
An outdoor education centre in Eltham owned by Greenwich Council is lying unused four years after the charity that ran it closed, along with a centre in Kent that was visited by the Duchess of Cambridge only a decade ago. The Eltham Environment Centre on Bexley Road and Margaret McMillan House in Wrotham were operated […]
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‘You knew our business plan’: Stricken outdoor charity Wide Horizons hits back at Greenwich Council leader
The chief executive of outdoor adventure charity Wide Horizons, which has announced its closure, has denied claims by Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe that his officers had been left unaware of the organisation’s financial situation until just days before a crunch meeting to decide its future. Wide Horizons, based in Eltham, is to close on […]
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Children’s charity Wide Horizons set to close amid war of words with Greenwich Council
Updated story: Troubled children’s charity Wide Horizons has announced its closure, accusing Greenwich Council on going back on a pledge to lend it £200,000 to allow it to continue as well as “four months of timewasting” on the issue. The Eltham-based organisation, which operates in both Greenwich and Lewisham boroughs, had already launched a £100,000 […]
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‘Save Wide Horizons’: Eltham outdoor education charity appeals to public for £100,000
Eltham’s Wide Horizons children’s activity charity has launched an appeal to fight for its future after school cuts led to it announcing plans to pull out of its main centre on Bexley Road. The charity, which can date its heritage back to the founding of a outdoor centre in Swanage, Dorset in 1929, was spun […]
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