the wharton trust
Hartlepoo
The Annexe is a recently-refurbished (2010) local Community & Resource Centre
run by the Wharton Trust in the Dyke House area of Hartlepool. Dyke House is
within the top 2% of deprived wards in the UK and, as such, experiences high
levels of unemployment, low levels educational attainment and aspiration, high
levels of health inequalities and extreme levels of deprivation. The centre,
throughout its 21-year-history, has supported the people who live in this
community and surrounding areas in a variety of ways over the years. Our staff
are incredibly passionate and committed to reducing the effects of worklessness
and poverty in the area. Most of our activities are around: