Jubilee Park Community Centre — Local services in Sandwell

For the past four years, the local community centre has been a vital hub for martial arts classes that benefited local children and families. These sessions ran smoothly, with no major issues, and were always well-supervised. Sadly, that has recently changed.

The centre manager, Harjinder Ganger, has raised multiple complaints—ranging from noise levels to children being unruly and people arriving on bikes. These claims feel unfounded to many of us in the community who have witnessed the classes being responsibly run and well-managed.

Due to these ongoing complaints, the classes have now been forced to relocate to a venue much further away. This decision has made it harder for local families to access the sessions, and it feels like a loss for the community. The situation has also created an uncomfortable environment for both staff and regular users of the centre.

It’s disheartening to see a community space become less inclusive due to management that seems out of touch with the needs and realities of...

Would not recommend this area at all, first time visiting this community centre, from London , and nearly got robbed by a load of youths on bikes! Definitely not safe even in broad daylight. Car park is right next to where these youths seem to hang out, cars don’t seem safe either and the walk to the car park was traumatising.

Such a shame as facilities were clean, and staff were inviting and...

Not great, I was on the park with my child and at 2:50 the people that work in the centre told me they were closing now, nowhere does it state the park closes at this time and also I asked opening times and they told me 9-3 so I’m not sure why we had to leave early. 3 o’clock is a pretty silly time to be closing a park as that’s when most will...