About the Hilda Lane Community Association

The Centre was specially built by Affinity Sutton (ASH) to replace the highly successful former 1980s community centre, a pre-fabricated temporary building near the new centre which was provided by Bromley Council which had come to the end of its working life. The building is now owned by Clarion Housing.

HLCA had successfully run the previous local community centre since the 1980s and became a charitable company in December 2006 to prepare for the new centre which opened in 2012. The Centre has been managing a wide range of activities and additionally hosting events since 2012 to benefit all sections of the local community including youth services, older people’s activities and sports and leisure opportunities. The current board of 6 trustees are all local people from the area of benefit with vast experience of volunteering, running community organisations and of community work. The centre serves some of the areas of greatest social need in the borough of Bromley.

The Centre building has full disabled access and is comprised of a medium sized community hall, small meeting room, site office, small kitchen and outdoor Multi Use Games Area.  The current service provision and ongoing intention is to provide a full range of education, training, leisure and recreation facilities for all sections of our diverse community.  Centre staff supported by local volunteers, manage the centre.

Youth work, fitness clubs, healthy living, training, one to one education, mother and baby groups and faith related groups are amongst the activities currently taking place as well as providing a managed facility for family celebrations and partnership meetings.