Millwood Servicing is the latest firm to sign up as a Patron of Croydon’s Legacy Youth Zone, committing £75,000 over three years to support the new centre’s activities.
Staff from Millwood Servicing on a visit to the Legacy Youth Zone
Opened on Whitehorse Road last September, the Legacy Youth Zone is a £6.5million purpose-built youth facility that provides access to an indoor climbing wall, sports hall, fully equipped gym, an arts and crafts studio, music room with recording studio, training kitchen, a 3G football pitch, dance and drama studio – all for just £5 annual membership and 50p per visit.
As a Founder Patron of the charity, Millwood Servicing as pledged to donate £25,000 to Legacy each year for the next three years, which will go directly towards supporting thousands of young people from Croydon to meet new people, develop their skills, experience new opportunities and enjoy their leisure time in a safe and inspiring environment.
The Youth Zone will also work with partner organisations to deliver enterprise and employability workshops, which will help get young people into education, employment or training.
Legacy Youth Zone is run by OnSide Youth Zones for Croydon Council, and is supported by several local businesses and philanthropists.
The Zone already has 5,500 members signed up.
Millwood Servicing is a family-run company, based in Wallington, which provides award-winning fire safety engineering. Matt Wood, the company’s owner, said, “We are passionate about investing in our people and their skills ensuring all employees can fulfil their individual potential, to empower and dream big.
“As a Founder Partner, we now have the opportunity and privilege to invest in our local youth and in doing so, help create a brighter future. We believe OnSide’s Legacy Youth Zone will make a tremendous difference to the lives of young people by providing them with somewhere to go, something to do and someone to talk to and we look forward to seeing our community flourish as a result.”
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Excellent! Millwood deserves our thanks — supporting activities like these for young people has got to be good for the young people and their ( and our) futures. Let’s hope that many other Croydon businesses will follow where Millwood are leading!