Community-run Community Centres provide an unparalleled range of diverse services and facilities throughout the borough, based mainly on self-funding and extensive volunteering, saving untold sums of money for the Council and statutory services. We promote community cohesion, awareness and empowerment, and all kinds of cultural, educational, social and economic opportunities.
In July 2015 Council officers produced a short report of the extensive 3-year long review of Community Centres based in Council buildings. The Council's Cabinet unfortunately endorsed the report's recommendations which boil down to a threat of much shorter leases (which would prevent long-term investment and strategic planning), impossibly high rents and much greater insecurity for those organisations and Centres affected, many of which will face closure as a result.
This is complete contradiction to both the Council's 'Corporate Plan' and its 'Communities Strategy' in which the Council says it 'will work with communities to achieve their ambitions, by making best use of the strengths of the borough and ensuring that we build capacity and foster independence and self-reliance.
Community Centres are central to the achievement of such aims,
and to the ongoing provision of a whole range of services,
particularly at a time when the Council is continually having to
cut back on its own provision.
This petition is submitted by Haringey Community Centres Network
which includes The Asian Centre, The Irish Centre, The Selby
Centre, Lord Morrison Hall, Jackson Lane, Lordship Eco Hub, The
Markfield Project and the West Indian Cultural Centre.
On reaching 2200 signatures A debate will be held at full Council
This ePetition ran from 09/10/2015 to 12/02/2016 and has now finished.
239 people signed this ePetition.