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Award winning Trust builds on its success

The Longhill Link-Up Trust is a church-based community development organisation, working in St. Margaret‘s Church, East Hull.  Since 1995 the Longhill Link-Up Trust has developed from a small voluntary group into an organisation that now employs 7.5 full time equivalent staff.

Grant funding of nearly £600,000 from the European Regional Development Fund has enabled the Trust to undergo a large redevelopment of its premises, which were fully opened in March 2005.  This has resulted in a considerable enhancement of the Trust’s resources and ability to meet the needs of the community it serves.

The Trust has worked with people of all age ranges including nearly 2,000 young people through its detached youth work.  Successful activity-based youth work is also being run by the Trust.  In addition, over 1,000 people have accessed the Trust’s IT facilities in its Cyber Café, in one way or another.  The methods and systems that the Cyber Café uses are regularly reviewed to ensure that the most effective packages for monitoring and maintenance are in place.

The work and help of the project’s volunteers has been vital to Link-Up’s success.  Through this work with volunteers, the organisation received the prestigious Queen’s Golden Jubilee Award in July 2003.  Only two hundred organisations nationally have received this award and it is a fitting testament to the work that the volunteers have invested, and are continuing to invest, in the project.  Four volunteers attended a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace and the project’s previous co-ordinator, Judy Talbot Kessler, and volunteer, Peter Grunill, are pictured receiving the award from Mr. Richard Marriott, Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire.