Welcome to Newham African Caribbean Resource Centre – (also known as Barking Road Community Centre).
We hope you find the information provided interesting, useful and enjoyable, so that you will visit regularly and navigate through the pages to your heart’s content.
NACRC is in it’s fourth decade
As a purposeful resource to meet the needs and aspirations of the African-Caribbean and wider community, made possible when the Department of the Environment responded the needs of the African Caribbean provide in 1986 by approving an application by Newham African Caribbean Alliance for a grant to build the Centre.
We hope that the look and feel of the web site will portray a complementary picture of what NACRC is all about – our people and the communities that we serve. We welcome your feedback, which will help us make improvements to the services of our unique organisation. Enjoy your African-Caribbean journey and visit us virtually. Our doors are always open to welcome you even in times of closure, which the web site seeks to achieve.
Once again, welcome…AKWABA (Twi), Bienvenue (French), Bon Jou (Kweyol), Boyambi (Lingala), Dalu (Igbo), Eku abo (Yoruba), Karibu (Swahili), Mauya (Shona), Sana da zo a (Hausa), Siyaliyemukela (Ndebele), Soo dhawow (Somali), Waado (Urhobo), Tubifurije Ikaze (Kinyarwanda), etc. We invite you to visit us to add to the value of our diversity.
OVERVIEW
NACRC is a registered Limited Company and Charity that was established in 1986 in response to demands from the African Caribbean community for a physical base from which to initiate and deliver responses to their challenges and ambitions.
Its establishment was led by the Newham African Caribbean Alliance, an association of the Borough’s African & Caribbean organisations, who came together to be the joint and representative voice of the black community in Newham.
Our facilities are open to everyone, including persons of non-African-Caribbean origin, and the Centre has expanded its remit to include work with African Caribbean Communities in neighbouring boroughs.
The community centre serves as the hub for the local community (not only African and Caribbean) in Newham; it allows a cost effective location for community activities to take place.
Come and learn more about how you can help us make an impact
