Save Fairycroft House
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The centre & the people who run it and offer help, classes and advice have been there for years and it runs very effectively...
Quite simply if it isn't broken then don't fix it!
Truth Translation for the "NEW MULTICENTRE" press release . . .
Recently a County Council press release announced plans for a "New Multicentre" for Saffron Walden.
Using the whole ex Social Care building solely for adult education would help to fulfil a growing need for local training and lifelong learning facilities. However, the space within the same building proposed for youth groups (if moved from FairyCroft House) is a claustrophobic basement with low ceilings and lacking daylight. Serious health and safety concerns have been voiced that the Social Care building is totally unsuitable for use by youth groups.
FairyCroft community centre is not surplus to demand. If it was then why are the County Council thought to be paying rent for local offices when access to recently refurbished, excellent first floor offices at Fairy Croft already exists? Puzzling.
Decision makers are begged to act with foresight and to choose a good moral path for local well being, and respectfully asked to consider that expanding populations need more community learning and leisure space - not less.
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Find it in your heart
Our child goes to a special needs club every week held at the Croft. The building is perfect for clubs and groups as there are different activity zones - one side of the building is great for letting off steam and exercise and the other side for quieter activities. Our child looks forward to going all week as they have very few local friends due to having to go to a special school a long distance away. This is a chance for local friendships and the staff are wonderful. We know they would feel devastated if the Croft closes. The tiny basement with hardly any daylight next door being proposed as an alternative to the Croft bears absolutely no comparison to the fantastic disability friendly premises at the Croft. We hope that people find it in their hearts to keep this wonderful building for now and for the future. We need social contact. We need hope. We need to find it in our hearts to look out for people who need extra support.
Please don't waste huge amounts already spent on refurbishment
Clarance House includes a Library and Adult Learning Centre, enhancing quality of life, providing learning and social opportunities and helping to bond communities. The central community building Fairycroft has served Saffron Walden well as a base for learning and recreation for decades. In recent years it has had very large sums spent on modernising, improving access and redecoration throughout. It would be a great shame if all this public investment was wasted. The building next door would be a very meagre substitute.
Need is increasing for innovative, resourceful approaches to make best use of existing community facilities around Uttlesford and retain them for the benefit of future generations. Dunmow Community and Centre and Library was also said to be under threat of closure, but was given a reprieve. In addition to popular youth club evenings, day time use was expanded to provide special educational services. Perhaps this day time use goes some way towards reducing some of the (necessary but considerable) transport bills which then in turn frees up budgets elsewhere.
Human Kind
Please search your humanKIND conscience decision makers.
Wanted = Foresight + Wisdom + Kindness!
well done
Activities and exercise space needed!
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great comment and very true - when places lose community meeting places they lose their soul and people become more isolated, lonely and unhappy. People miss out on many opportunities to make positive connections and help progress.
Media career start
It helped me get into film making, media and acting and onto bigger things.
Please keep the Croft for other people to have fun, to learn and to make friends
Music
I went to loads of music and youth events at the Croft.
If it hadn’t been for going to the Croft I wouldn’t have got interested in making music and gone on to make it a success. Some of the best times ever spent there.
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