Asian Resource Centre of Croydon Limited

Who we are

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 support, develop and promote voluntary/community activity that enhances the quality of life in Croydon. Our vision is of an inclusive vibrant and sustainable voluntary and community sector that enhances local quality of life.

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 wellbeing of Asian communities

Our Approach

ARCC believes in a holistic approach to delivering services and achieving impactful outcomes.

Our approach is three pronged

1. Partnering with organisations to deliver an ABCD grass roots response that builds on community strengths and advances equalities for addressing needs and issues faced by marginalised communities.
2. Enabling voluntary sector organisations to develop and grow, providing infrastructure support to VCS to deliver quality services.
3. Gathering evidence of community conversations in relation to community issues, needs and gaps affecting Asian communities in particular.

Our Values

4E’s

• Empathy
• Equality
• Excellence
• Empowerment

ARCC takes pride in providing a quality and accessible service to communities by delivering against a set of principles we call the 4E’s.

Empathy

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.

Equality

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.

Excellence

As an infrastructure organisation we will inspire and lead action. We will strive to identify and disseminate the knowledge base for good practice in all aspects of our work with the VCS.​

Empowerment

We believe empowerment is about supporting communities and people to gain control over the factors and decisions that define their lives.​