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19.09.2023 - 18:17 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Good old-fashioned leafleting came to the rescue as more than 100 people attended a meeting to save a popular community centre.
Greenpark Community Centre in Polmont is one of more than 100 properties that Falkirk Council announced would either transfer out of council ownership or close altogether as part of a review of its property.
The centre is one of the biggest and busiest in the Falkirk council area and a small group of community activists were hopeful that they could keep it open by transferring it into community ownership.
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Former councillor Malcolm Nicol and Michael Stuart of Polmont Community Council, along with Sheila McKee, the chair of Greenpark's management committee, were all keen to take plans forward. But after two or three meetings with few people attending, they were beginning to lose hope.
Mr Nicol said: "We had a couple of meetings and there wasn't a great attendance. Then we decided to really get it done seriously, so we leafleted most of the village and put posters and banners up.
"We were rewarded with around 100 people coming to the Greenpark Centre last Thursday with several more attending online."
To take the application to the next stage, which involves registering with the Scottish charity regulator, they were told that they would need at least 20 people to make it sustainable.
"I'm happy to say we got almost 50 people signed up," said Mr Nicol.
"There are challenges - there's no getting away from that," said Mr Nicol, who says parts of the building are basically "huts" that are past their best.
"Once this comes to fruition - and hopefully it will now - we need to look at ways to find money to improve
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