Saving a leisure centre
Many of you may know that I embarked on saving a sports facility 2 years ago. The council was closing it and that was that. Or so many thought... In my heart though I felt there were issues of integrity with this decision and so I quickly joined with some local mums who had started a petition against the closure. I had more than enough on at the time but as a community worker my professional values were at stake as far as I was concerned. I could not stand by and see a facility be demolished because I knew it would have a detrimental effect on the long term health and well being of the community. It soon became apparent that the decision would not be reversed and the last option was a community buy out of the facility. Fighting demolition is massive, but thanks to a great team within the community that evolved we have done it - it is the community worker's dream. I am so proud do be a part of this. What started as my off time, soon became part of ministr...