A small London charity has won a £1,000 donation from The Charities Property Fund, which will be used to help create a much-needed new youth and community centre in the city's East End.
All the charities that completed The Charities Property Questionnaire earlier this year were entered into a prize draw. In July, Carr Sheppards Crosthwaite director Steve Elliot drew the name of the Attlee Foundation out of a hat.
Director of the Attlee Foundation, Helena Holt, said: "We are delighted to win the prize draw. It is very timely as we are fundraising to build a multi-purpose youth and community centre in Spitalfields. The centre will safeguard the last open space in the area suitable for children to play in."
The charity needs to raise £2.75m to get the project off the ground. When the centre is built, local young people will have a place to socialise, keep fit, access advice and learn new skills.
The management of the centre will be transferred to local parents and it will be run as a social enterprise, using the income from sports facilities and meeting rooms to subsidise after-school and holiday playschemes and youth projects.
"Most of all it is an investment in a cohesive and inclusive society where opportunity is genuinely open to all," said Ms Holt.