Welcome to Sunlight Development Trust

Based at Sunlight Centre, Gillingham, we are a truly local charity, working closely with our community to improve physical and mental wellbeing, ease loneliness and encourage personal independence. Together we achieve our goals by identifying areas of need and collaborating to create wellbeing and social groups for residents of Medway and Swale

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And the nominees for VCSEF Leader are…

And the nominees for VCSEF Leader are…

Two members of Team Sunlight have been nominated for a VCSEF Leadership Award. Congratulations and good luck to our Chair of Trustees Adam Price and all-round superhero Chris White. Adam lives over the road from Sunlight, he’s been a Trustee since 2010 and a local councillor on and off since May 1988. Chris has been at Sunlight since the very beginning. He has 20 years’ […]

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Enjoy the great outdoors!

Enjoy the great outdoors!

Did you know our community gardens are available for hire between 10am and 2pm for £60? Both are ideal for an outdoor meeting, team building or a staff picnic. The High Hopes Garden behind the Sunlight Centre is available on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and our Wild and Recycled Garden on Otway Street on Thursdays and Fridays. If you’d like to know more about […]

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Be Your Own Boss!

Be Your Own Boss!

Following the recent success of the ‘Be Your Own Boss’ pilot programme with The Perfect Place to Grow in Margate, Growing Kent & Medway is now bringing its youth enterprise programme to Medway. ‘Be Your Own Boss’ provides free entrepreneurial and kitchen skills training in a welcoming environment to young people aged 18 to 24 years. The next programme will run in collaboration with The […]

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