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Closed 31/12/2020

Buy A Brick Appeal - Keep our Centre as a Self Sustaining Community Hub

We Needed to Raise £447,230 - with locals buying from our traders we have raised just over £311,271. Help us save this Community Hub pledge your support - Buy A Brick.

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Closed 31/12/2020

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We transcribe print magazines and newspapers into audio format for the benefit of the visually and reading impaired. These can be downloaded online daily, free of charge. Last year over 30,500 articles were listened to and a further 34 listeners still receive a weekly tape service.

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We have raised £311,271  over 15 years just for this appeal we would love to speed this process up with your support. 

By owning the building outright we would hope that the total rental income from the 19 units could be used to ensure:

1. the continuation and expansion of our internet based talking newspaper service,

2. our recruitment of older volunteers with life experiences that can be passed onto the young people we employ on short term contracts

3. that people with disabilities could be offered at least a year of work utilising current government programmes and self-generated funding.

Most of the tenants in the building are local people operating small businesses, social enterprises or charities that are there to employ local people and provide a service to our community.  

Without our community hub being based so close to the town centre many of the businesses would find it difficult to survive.

Donation summary

Total
£311,310.48
Online
£39.48
Offline
£311,271.00
Direct
£39.48
Fundraisers
£0.00

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