"The trustees are well aware of the challenging times local people faced forty years ago when, against all the odds of austerity, they turned their dream of a community centre into reality. We now need to channel that same energy from a new generation. In order to survive the centre needs to be more adaptable to local needs, it needs to be more energy efficient and it needs to manage major works to the roof, doors and windows and drains. So how to do this while still trying to make our limited ends meet? The centre’s current Business Plan has achieved most of its aims but is no longer sufficient to meet the new challenges we now face and is in the process of being rewritten.

Source: The Times January 25, 2024 13:58 UTC