About Us
Asian Resource Centre of Croydon was established in 1999 as a charitable organisation with a view of bringing together Asian Communities & Businesses.
Our mission is to foster, advance, and champion community engagement and volunteer initiatives that enhance our local community's well-being, health, and overall quality of life.
Our vision encompasses a thriving, inclusive, and enduring voluntary and community sector that enriches the lives of Asian and minority ethnic communities.
Our key outcomes are:
More effective, responsive services for local people
Empowered and active communities
Increased social inclusion and community cohesion
An increase in social capital
Strengthening of civil society
Increased health and well-being of Asian communities
Approach
ARCC believes in a holistic approach to delivering services and achieving impactful outcomes.
Our approach is three-pronged
Partnering with organisations to deliver an ABCD grassroots response that builds on community strengths and advances equalities for addressing needs and issues faced by marginalised communities.
Enabling voluntary sector organisations to develop and grow, providing infrastructure support to VCS to deliver quality services.
Gathering evidence of community conversations concerning community issues, needs and gaps affecting Asian communities in particular.
Our Values
The 4E’s
ARCC takes pride in providing a quality and accessible service to communities by delivering against a set of principles we call the 4E’s.
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We believe Empathy at its simplest, is awareness of the feelings and emotions of other people. It is a key element of Emotional Intelligence, the link between self and others, because it is how we as individuals understand what others are experiencing as if we were feeling it ourselves.
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Ensuring everybody has an equal opportunity and is not treated differently or discriminated against because of their characteristics such as age, disability, race, religion or belief, gender including gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
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As an infrastructure organisation we will inspire and lead with our actions. We will strive to identify and disseminate the knowledge base for good practice in all aspects of our work as a VCS (Voluntary Sector Organisation).
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We believe empowerment is about supporting communities and people to gain control over the factors and decisions that define their lives.