Keystone is a community resource charity working in the Thetford, Brandon and Mildenhall areas. Keystone supports and delivers a diverse range of projects and services responsive to the needs of the local community.
Keystone was created as a Development Trust in April 2003, evolving from its predecessor, the Keystone Community Partnership. As a charitable trust, Keystone aims to build community capital in its area. Empowering individuals, groups and communities to tackle needs and issues by creating their own solutions, organisations or enterprises, whilst ensuring services, assets and enterprises anchor collective wealth locally.
Keystone is currently able to offer expert advice and support to local groups and organisations, affordable space to enable local groups to launch or expand their front-line services; and to share knowledge with other organisations to enable better collaborative working and reduced duplication and greater impact for people within our community.
Keystone is supported to manage and deliver its projects by a team of dedicated staff and volunteers. Keystone’s Board of Trustees oversees the objectives of the organisation.
Since its inception Keystone has delivered support to communities within its area through a diverse range of projects, many of which are long term and continue to run after many years.
Keystone projects include
• The Annexe at Riversdale rough sleepers’ facility, run by Chapter 15 volunteers
• The Keystone Counselling Service
• The Community Fridge at Abbey Neighbourhood Centre
• Management of four community centres, the Riversdale Centre, the Abbey Neighbourhood Centre, and St John’s Community Centre in Mildenhall, and the Brandon Centre.
• Developing the Thetford Rickshaw project with enABLE
• Partnership working with the Charles Burrell Centre, the Benjamin Foundation, Breckland council, and Thetford Town Council to name but a few.