"Community engagement is at the very core of our activities. Nowhere is this more evident than in our ambitious plans to create a community resiliency hub in Yaxley. BBA’s input into this project has been invaluable, stepping forward to volunteer professional services at every stage of the planning. Their skills and experience have allowed us to move the project forward at an accelerated rate and their guidance will benefit our organisations, our project partners and the wider community, both now and in the future.”

074 Annabelle Davis Centre

Location_

Yaxley, Cambridgeshire

Client_

Young People's Counselling Service

Main contractor_

Northdown Property Services

Status_

Complete

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Can a building bring a community together?

The Annabelle Davis Centre is an ambitious project to create a network of family resiliency centres, being led by the Young People’s Counselling Service. The hub is named after patron Annabelle Davis.

Butcher Bayley Architects was appointed as Architect for the first centre (Yaxley) and assisted in developing the Strategic and Design Brief for future sites. Each centre will have a unique offering of services, specific to the community that it serves and the key to its’ success will be an integrated and collective approach to finding solutions.

Community engagement

In both delivering the first Annabelle Davis Centre and developing a Strategic Brief for future sites, BBA have been engaged with a range of diverse stakeholders: Trustees, Patrons, Counsellors, Vicars, CEOs of Partner Organisations, Politicians and, mostly importantly, young people. The emerging solutions are a direct response to the ongoing dialogue with these individuals and communities.

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