This may not be a school issue directly but I have been asked to promote the Beacon Community Centre’s petition to help keep the Beacon within the community and not handed over to a Sports Trust.
The meeting has already happened but the petition is still available for signatures. There are copies in the Beacon Community Centre and I have copies here too. Here’s a link to the poster (.rtf) and here’s what it says…
BUCKSBURN – CAN WE TRUST THE ‘ TRUST ‘?
Aberdeen City Council has set plans in motion to hand over Sports Facilities in Aberdeen to a Sports Trust which will operate these facilities at ‘Arms Length’. In spite of the fact that the Beacon is a Community Centre it has been included in this plan and we stand to lose the focus of our community to a faceless group who will not have the same local commitment to accessible affordable services.
- Under this plan Bucksbum is the ONLY area in Aberdeen to lose its Community Centre
- The Council claim that this will with their financial burden – THEY ARE IGNORING THE FACT THAT THE BEACON PROGRAMME IS SELF FINANCING, WE DO NOT RUN AT A LOSS
- The Council is also ignoring the fact that the Gym, Squash courts and Gymnastic facility were all paid for by locally raised funds – WHAT RIGHT DO THEY HAVE TO GIVE THIS AWAY?
The Management Committee at the Beacon was only told of this plan at the beginning of September and the Council seems determined to push this through as quickly as possible and voted down a request for meaningful community consultation.
WE NEED TO ACT NOW
We are organising a meeting for the 27th of October 2008 at 7pm in the Beacon Community Centre. We will be inviting Local Councillors along with Council Officials who have drafted this plan without fully realising what the Beacon Community stands for. This is your chance to have your say and find out exactly what is happening.
Glasgow has already suffered by having Public Access Facilities handed over to a Trust composed of faceless businessmen.
- DON’T LET IT HAPPEN HERE!
Beacon Community Centre Management Committee
I hope you can all sign this, the Beacon Community Centre is an integral part of the Bucksburn and Newhills communities. Even if you don’t use it yourself you might well use it in the future. The costs of using the Beacon Community Centre will rise up to 5 times higher than you pay right now, an example was the badminton which is priced at £2.50 or thereabouts per session, this could rise to over £9. Bucksburn definitely does not need this.
I don’t know why the council in Aberdeen City want to kill Bucksburn off. We are losing the hearts of our community left right and centre. They fail to realise that, although we might be within the boundaries of Aberdeen City, this is NOT the city centre. We have a great LOCAL community and that is something to be embraced and acclaimed in these times.
Aberdeen City Council seem determined to destroy this community with no regards to the population’s opinion.
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