08/09/2026
CIRENCESTER ASHCROFT WORK & WIFI CLUB
WEEKLY UPDATE - UPDATED AT 8TH SEPTEMBER 2026 (with updated next 4 weeks’ sessions)
(Written unusually whilst away on leave)
**NEWSFLASH**
The work club is now the work & wifi club! This is to emphasise that we not only help people seeking work, but also people wanting to improve their access to the internet. At both Cirencester Ashcroft Church and Centre, Ashcroft Road, and at St Lawrence’s Church, Chesterton, Cirencester we now can offer free internet access during our sessions, which you can use with or without support from the club. We have tablets we can help you use, if you don’t have your own device.
The work & wifi club will continue to operate on most
Mondays - 9.00am to 11.00am at St Lawrence’s Church Centre
and
Tuesdays – 12.00pm to 2.00pm at Cirencester Ashcroft Church & Centre
(but not on Bank Holidays).
We are now usually open for confidential one-to-one face-to-face support at these times. We also provide one-to-one phone and online support at these times too.
We also work in partnership with Cirencester Jobcentre to support referred jobseekers who would like some extra assistance.
You can contact me at the usual work & wifi club times by :-
- Face-to-face;
- Email : [email protected];
- Phone or text : 07951439302;
- Sending a message through the Cirencester Ashcroft Work & Wifi Club page.
We can then have a chat face-to-face, by phone, by message, or by video link if we can set one up, and I will do my best to help you.
You can also contact me at other times and we will then agree an appointment time to have a proper conversation.
Specific opening times over the next few weeks are below. Later opening times for the period up to the end of JANUARY 2027 are in the Events section (which is itself sometimes in the About section) of the Cirencester Ashcroft Work & Wifi Club and Cirencester Ashcroft Church and Centre pages. To access those later times, you will now need to be signed in to Facebook yourself, as Facebook recently “upgraded” so that Events data cannot be accessed by internet search alone (at least that seems to be what’s happened). Also Facebook only lets us select a maximum of about 50 future dates for an event at the time it is first published, hence why it appears to stop at a random date.
Monday 14th September 9.00 - 11.00 (AT ST LAWRENCE’S CENTRE)
Tuesday 15th September 12.00 - 2.00 (AT ASHCROFT CENTRE)
Monday 21st September 9.00 - 11.00 (AT ST LAWRENCE’S CENTRE)
Tuesday 22nd September 12.00 - 2.00 (AT ASHCROFT CENTRE)
Monday 28th September 9.00 - 11.00 (AT ST LAWRENCE’S CENTRE)
Tuesday 29th September 12.00 - 2.00 (AT ASHCROFT CENTRE)
Monday 5th October 9.00 - 11.00 (AT ST LAWRENCE’S CENTRE)
Tuesday 6th October 12.00 - 2.00 (AT ASHCROFT CENTRE)
(For those who are interested, I normally highlight the opening times for the next 4 weeks. However sometimes I increase this when they include a break, in part to make sure that the last week I show is one when we are open. This is to emphasise that any closure is only temporary. The work & wifi club is a key part of Ashcroft’s mission and outreach project until at least August 2029. After that date I intend to continue to run the work & wifi club indefinitely, whether or not part of a larger project.)
Andy Rickell, Cirencester Ashcroft Work & Wifi Club Manager
