# LOWESTOFT AND DISTRICT MENCAP CIO

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1212984
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** CIO
- **Registered:** April 17, 2025
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1212984


## Contact

- **Address:** The Unity Centre / The Fort, Unit 1, 3, 6 MILTON ROAD EAST, LOWESTOFT
- **Postcode:** NR32 1NT
- **Phone:** 01502539810
- **Email:** theunitycentre@hotmail.com
- **Website:** https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lowestoft-mencap-save-the-centre-fight-for-the-fort



## Activities

**Objects:** THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:A. THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY BY THE PROVISION OF HELP AND SUPPORT FOR THEM AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDENTS, AND CARERS.B. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED THEREOF BY REASON OF LEARNING DISABILITY WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.WITH REGARD TO THE ABOVE OBJECTS, AND FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, “LEARNING DISABILITY” MEANS ANY DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY OF THE MIND AND ANY ASSOCIATED CONDITION HOWSOEVER CAUSED AND WHETHER MILD, MODERATE OR SEVERE.

**Activities:** The Unity Centre is a cafe/charity shop offering advice/befriending/hate crime support. Activities: karaoke, arts & crafts, Bang & Crash, wellbeing and Groove. Our Unity Youth Projects department runs The Fort, a gaming hub that specialises in improving social connectivity & life/social skills, through digital/IT-based & modernised projects & activities, such as card/board/video games, D&D & VR.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- **What:** General Charitable Purposes, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity, Recreation
- **Who:** Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Suffolk




## Trustees

- **JACQUELINE GUYTON** (Chair) — appointed Nov. 26, 2009
- DAVID BEN HOLLINGWORTH — appointed Nov. 1, 2010
- Giselle Czajka — appointed Nov. 11, 2013
- Janet Craig — appointed Sept. 13, 2022
- Nathan McWade — appointed July 11, 2024
- Toni Jackson — appointed March 4, 2019