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Liskerrett Community Centre is actively seeking people to join its management team as a Trustee. We are seeking new trustees who have an ambition to develop a community resource, with the capacity to work with us to develop the organisation over the coming years. We are particularly looking for those with skills and experience in property management, finance, funding and legal aspects of such an organisation.
Liskerrett Community Centre was established in 2000 when the charity purchased the old Junior School and its associated land; a site of approximately one acre. Situated in the heart of Liskeard Town Centre, it is accessible and well loved by the community that it serves. The Community Centre has three main aspects to its work:
1. We hire out parts of our premises at affordable prices to small businesses – currently artists, dance studios and a café.
2. We hire out rooms on a sessional basis to local groups and clubs including tai-chi, support groups and the U3A.
3. We have a small number of employees who support the day to day running of the centre. They, with our volunteers facilitate and run a number of activities that generate income for the centre, or meet the criteria for the grants we receive from the Integrated Care Board and a number of other Charities including Volunteer Cornwall. It is a busy centre with an estimated throughput of 800 people per week; many of whom are elderly, lonely, frail or vulnerable.
As a charitable company, the Community Centre is registered with both the Charities Commission and Companies House, but it is planned to convert to a CIO in the new year. It has a turnover of approximately £95,000 per year, 25% of which is currently provided from grants.
Liskerrett Community Centre presents real opportunities for development by providing facilities for Artists and Makers in the area. We have space to create a community pottery studio, a men’s ‘shed’ and ‘hack’ space as well as expand our artist and small business studios towards a thriving hub of creativity.
This is currently limited by the age of the main building which is in need of updating to modern standards to improve access to parts and to improve its energy efficiency. Other buildings on the site are also in need of modernisation or more radical upgrades, being typical shorter life later school buildings.
This year there is the additional challenge presented by the building work on the adjacent Cattle Market site which is limiting parking and access for some of our users.
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