Calling Cranford residents! What do you want from your new Community Hub?

Hounslow Council is creating a new Community Hub at the Meadowbank Adult and Community Education Centre in Cranford. We want to hear from people who live, work and study in Cranford about what you want from your new Community Hub. 

What is a Community Hub?

Community hubs bring a range of resources together for residents in places that are suitable for their community. These resources could include: financial support, information on keeping healthy, skills and employment, mental health support and help for more complex issues. A community hub draws together the Council's Community Solutions team along with the local voluntary, community and social enterprise sector together to provide this service, close to where people live.

The new Cranford Community Hub will be based at:

Meadowbank Centre, Community Close (just off the Bath Road), North Cranford

This is the main community hub for Cranford. The hub will have its own dedicated space offering services residents need to help identify and solve everyday problems as well as offering interest activities. The Meadowbank Centre is already home to the Adult and Community Education Service and the local library will also move in to the Centre, offering a wide range of complimentary services to residents under one roof. The intention is to open this full hub service in 2025.

The Council’s Cabinet agreed in May 2024 that Cranford Library should move to the Meadowbank Centre, as part of this Community Hub. This move will offer a better environment and new space for a full library service, as well as improving library users access to other support such as housing support, financial and welfare advice, health and wellbeing services, and opportunities for employment and skills development. The Meadowbank Centre is just a few minutes walk away from the current Cranford Library site.

Finding the Meadowbank Centre

In addition to Meadowbank, there is already a Community Hub up and running at Beavers Children Centre and library in South Cranford. Since June 2024 local residents have been able to get support from the Council and services including the Department of Work and Pension and local voluntary sector organisations. Residents are able to visit this Community Hub from 10.30am to 2.30pm every Wednesday.

If you live in the Redwood Estate area you may be aware that the Council has been working over the summer alongside housing association, A2Dominion, and Cranford Community College to pilot a Community Hub alongside the holiday activity programme for children. Additional support for residents has also been provided by agencies including Citizen's Advice Hounslow and Golden Opportunities Skills and Development. A Community Hub will be developed in this part of Cranford building on the programme offered over the summer.

We want your views

Please take a few minutes to complete our very short survey. It will ask which services you would like to see based in the Meadowbank Community Hub. This survey is open until 5pm on 14th October 2024.

You can also talk to officers about the development of the Hub, drop-in sessions are available at the following times:

Every Tuesday from 17th September to 8th October

11am to 2pm, Cranford Library

 3pm to 8pm, Meadowbank Centre

You can also get paper copies of this survey from Cranford Library or the Meadowbank Centre and return them there, or contact us at consult@hounslow.gov.uk to ask for a copy.