The Cross-Links Centre is the home of Cross-Links Dover. It is the focal point for our work on Buckland Estate and further afield.

From 1997 to 2006 Cross-Links (our former name) had worked from a modest shop premises in the heart of the Buckland estate, (No 5a Sheridan Road).

The Centre is a Community Day Centre, open for community news & information, as well as a simple cafe providing refreshments & snack meals.

After school hours it becomes the home of a number of children’s clubs & on most evenings is a Youth Cafe.

There are opportunities for local people to gain experience in helping with all of these activities as volunteers.

We offer photocopying facilities & we hope to extend access to computers & the internet in the near future.

The Official Opening Ceremony took place on Monday 3rd July, although the Centre has been open to the community since 6th February 2006.

The Cross-Links Centre project was funded by:

Cross-Links own funds & fundraising events; Awards For All; Kent County Council Local Boards (Member Community grant & Small Community Capital Projects); Dover (Single Regeneration Budget) Fund; Kent County Council Partnership Awards; the Hollywood Manor Fund; Kent County Council Youth & Community Start-Up Fund and Canterbury Cathedral.

Cross-Links Dover and its projects are funded from a variety of sources including:

Cross-Links own funds & fundraising events; Canterbury Diocese Mission Initiatives Fund, The Hollywood Manor Fund; Methodist District Advance Fund; Southern Synod (URC) and Turn the Tide fund (URC); The Church and Community Fund; Dover Deanery Synod; Dover, Deal & Sandwich Children’s Centres (KCC); Dover Extended Services (KCC); Local churches, including: Dover Baptist church, St Peter & St Paul’s River, St Mary’s Dover, St Lawrence Hougham, St Radigund’s Capel, St Leonard’s Hythe, Hythe Methodist church and the generosity of local people through individual donations/giving.

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