Downside Community Centre
& the Community Café

Pan Together is a small local charity which exists to support and provide a community hub for the residents of Newport East, Isle of Wight. We are a membership-based organisation, where members have a say and (if they live locally) a vote on what we do.

Pan Together has eight charity trustees who have been elected to provide a strategic overview for the charity, and we employ a full-time Community Centre Manager, three part-time project workers and three part-time café staff.

We began as a community centre in 2007 and operated for many years, supporting our local community, from a portacabin. With local authority funding we relocated in 2016 to our fully equipped and purpose-built Community Centre in the heart of Pan in Newport East on the Isle of Wight.

Operating as a registered charity since January 2018, our Community Centre boasts a vibrant and popular Community Café, a Weekly Community Larder, a Fully Equipped IT Learning Suite, a Professionally Equipped Training Kitchen and several Community Meeting Rooms which are available to hire.

Without the help of our dedicated staff, amazing volunteers, individuals and organisations – who donate their time and services – and successful grant applications, we would not have been able to achieve any of this.