Charity Partner of the Year 2025
We are delighted to announce Singleton Environment Centre, as our new charity partnership for 2025.
Volunteers from the charity will be working in partnership with us throughout the year across a variety of activities and events to raise money.
Stay tuned for the activities on this page as they launch throughout the year.
"I am delighted to learn that the Singleton Environment Centre (SEC) has been chosen as the Designer Outlet's 'Charity of the Year'. In Ashford since 2000, McArthur Glen is the prime destination for leisure shopping, offering a wide range of high end, designer branded items.
SEC has worked with the outlet on a number of projects, and you can see our 'Bug Hotels' around the site. I look forward to working even closer with the team at the Outlet as we move forward through 2025."
Who are they?
Singleton Spaces has been operating Singleton Environment Centre from 11 March 2018 on behalf of Great Chart with Singleton Parish Council (GCwSPC). The building and grounds are owned by Ashford Borough Council and are leased to GCwSPC for a peppercorn rent.
Singleton Spaces is a charity – an independent trust with a board of volunteers. It was formed on 2 November 2018 with a Declaration of Trust and is registered with the Charity Commission (number 1180577).
The trustees provide a wealth of experience from local government, ecological consultancy, global business and are hands-on with many aspects of achieving the charitable objectives.
The objects of the charity (‘the objects’) to be carried out in Singleton and the neighbouring communities of Washford Farm, Brisley Farm, Stanhope, Chilmington Green and Great Chart (‘the Area of Benefit’) are:
1) The preservation, protection and improvement of the natural environment for the public benefit, in particular but not exclusively by promoting and supporting the creation and maintenance of green spaces within the area of benefit.
2) Advancing education for the public benefit in conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment.
Specific ways the Singleton Spaces will achieve this outcome
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by providing a hub of information and advice;
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by providing community and school activities such as, but not exclusively, practical sessions and working-parties;
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by engaging with public, private and voluntary-sector organisations with similar purposes working in the locality.
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