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St Georges Centre Client : The Access Centre Budget : £1m AJA were engaged to undertake a feasibility study to review the existing St Georges church and Victorian community centre in 1998. After a considerable amount of consultation with local people, the district council and the buildings' owners , it was decided that the community centre had reached the end of its useful life and so it was demolished to make way for the new centre. An enormous amount of local energy went into fund raising for the project, and final contributors included EMDA, The Community Fund, Gedling Borough Council, WREN and Surestart. The new building is used by groups who were in the old building; a resource centre, toy library, TOFS (a charity to help parents of children who cannot swallow) plus new users including a playgroup, karate, keep fit, an IT suite run by New College, offices for Surestart and a seminar room which is regularly hired out by local groups. The building has been of huge benefit to Netherfield. The architects have made it a very welcome, accessible and flexible space which has brought together a disparate collection of services across the area. |