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  1. A lot more permission than you've got for that Golly! You don't know the grief that caused me with A. Nother moderator. It's only still there because I stood up (well, more correctly sat down) for your right to party!
    2 points
  2. Well last week it was reported in the local press that Bedlington have a leisure centre,well they are going to close leisure centres with losses of jobs in Ashington,Newbiggin and Bedlington! Are the powers that be so out of touch that they really think we have a leisure centre in Bedlington? Also reported they are actually thinking of bulldozing Newbiggin leisure centre and building a new one! It beggars belief. £10 MILLION on sand that will end up at Cambois. EH! Now a new LEISURE CENTRE! Nobody uses the old one thats why it's closing, and they are talking of building a new one, who are these people? Did we actually vote these people into POWER or did they just pop up from some defunct slek heap, they know nothing of our community and everything they say or do proves it! Get a grip, Bedlington is in the throes of death! Wake up before it is too late, if it is not already!
    2 points
  3. I see what you mean. Ive been thinking about Bedlington and its spending sprees on local " Community " projects. Like the rehashing of the market place 10 years or so after it was done the last time. Imagine if that cash would have been spent on something people might actually want, or something that might bring people into Bedlington - you know, the things we have to travel too, like swim , play five aside football, hockey - instead we have/had a community drinking hole, that was cheap but well thats about it. Just Imagine if Bedlington had something that Morpeth,Ashington crammlington didnt have! But now we've got some new seats and a paving slabs
    2 points
  4. No IMMAGINATION you're having a laugh, their imagination must be working treble time to run it at 78k (and thats minimum cost) when the place stands empty most of the time. When it is under use, is it subsidised? If so to what extent? Something fishy going on here and it's not from Brians fish smoker either!
    2 points
  5. Stephen, Not trying to be too pedantic but the figure you mentioned of 78K is supposed to represent the SUBSIDY cost not running costs. I presume that is what must be put into the pot once any contributions from the centre itself are eaten up? I would therefore assume we are being told even your figures are not the true running costs? Without an independent audit or the figures released to the public at large I don't see why we should just accept what looks like arbitrary calculations?
    2 points
  6. I remember a play park/basketball thing was built down from the pit heaps, if its still there, ive yet to see any kids using it, and no wonder - it was rubbish, who thought that would be a good idea, someone did. It wasnt , it was a half arsed attempt, spending a bit and then probably whinging that no one used it. If all the money thats been spent on pointless tat around Bedlington over the years the town could have had proper facilities years ago. Its a lack of ambition. I have no real hope that it will change,
    1 point
  7. Dave, Whilst I completely agree with your sentiments I think you have picked the wrong target for your ire. The recent work done at the Market Place derived from efforts by a community group whose only remit was to try for stuff like this. They had and have no legitimacy going after what we can all see as an abject lack of community facilities in the town. We now have another community group looking into that, lets hope they are as successful. Merlin, I read that article and shook my head as well, but I presume they are talking about our community centre being put on notice? I like your last sentence and I think we, as a community, have been too re-active for too long, it's about time we became pro-active!
    1 point
  8. My point exactly in another thread Sizsels ( Head splitting ) All the salt went down the cracks between the slabs which haven't been filled in yet,and they are already starting to subside, high points are starting to show,but if you use dodgy contractors and black market labour you can't expect anything else! As Ive said before I hope the cooncil are well insured for all the compen' claims for all the head splitting, trips and falls. Good luck everybody and happy tripping :lol:
    1 point
  9. If it was run correctly in the first place it would have been fine, but it was run by people with no imagination. 78K a year?
    1 point
  10. Second - not sure what you mean by your question about 'entirely' voluntary? Are you asking if the town councillors would be looking after the rooms and whether they would want some payment for it? Not at all, I was asking if this would be a completely voluntary assignation if it went to the town council with regards to the county. As it stands taking it on now would wipe out all of this years precept! Neither am I suggesting the town council taking it on is the panacea, I would have thought a very careful examination is called for
    1 point
  11. Looks like a step in the right direction. This would be 'entirely' voluntary for you guys to take on wouldn't it?
    1 point
  12. Exactly one of my points….are we just supposed to accept this figure for what is in reality a community owned asset? It might only take one person on film star's wages somewhere in the system to distort the costings. Again I agree with this and there are other options to be considered as well, as has already been pointed out on this thread.
    1 point
  13. We had a strong class there on a wednesday once over, an hour for under 13's then an hour and a half for 13-adult, then due to a change of instructor, the numbers fell. the origional instructor came back to a class of 6, barely enough to pay for the hall for an hour, never mind the late class. As a class builder, he asked if he could have the room for half price for 6 weeks for the hour and a half (since we'd been there for over 2 years that i knew of!) so we could cut the price, have "bring a friend for free", still be able to include the youths for the first half hour etc to build it back up again. "sorry, company policy, no can do. its full price or leave." We left 3 weeks later for a new venue, and built the class back up within weeks. The room at the CC was not used on a wednesday night again, as far as i'm aware, and i believe they now close that day?? (i may be wrong about opening times) its attitudes like this that stop organisations using the place. No help at all!
    1 point
  14. I feel strongly that people should be objecting on principle to losing resources such as community centres and libraries. As someone has pointed out maybe the CC is not the best run and if this was improved it would be much more of a hub for community activities. One thing I would specifically like to mention is the parent and toddler group on Tuesdays. The Catholic church are apparently closing their Monday group down as well. As a relative newcomer to the north east, going to groups like this really helped me meet other parents and feel part of a community for the first time since moving to Bedlington! I feel sad that these groups are dwindling. On a cynical note, I bet the council could have easily funded the running of the community centre / library for a year or two with the money they secured from Tesco for the precious York stone (or whatever it is) for the market place.
    1 point
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