Centre socioculturel La Pinède

Founded in 1992, Centre socioculturel La Pinède is a community organisation based in Villeneuve de Berg, France working on community development, poverty & hunger, children & youth +3 more.

The Centre socioculturel La Pinède is a socio-cultural community centre and loi 1901 association based in Villeneuve de Berg, in the Ardèche department of France, operating since 1992. It works for residents of its local area, with priority given to single-parent families, young people and seniors. Its activities cover family and children's services, youth and teen programmes, cultural and sport classes, a solidarity grocery, a second-hand clothing shop, a shared garden, food collection with the Banque Alimentaire, and support for parenting and volunteering. Guided by popular education values of solidarity, dignity, democracy, sharing, respect and secularism, it aims to combat isolation and precarity and to promote social mix and links between residents. The centre is affiliated with the Fédération des centres sociaux.