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Article: Struggling centre wants new members.
- Article from:
- Shields Gazette (South Shields, England)
- Article date:
- May 29, 2008
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A STRUGGLING community centre is still looking for new members, despite a last-ditch appeal last month.
The Charles Young Centre in Talbot Road, South Shields, could close unless it boosts its dwindling membership.
Bosses at the centre made an urgent appeal for help in April after membership numbers reached an all-time low, and funding began to dry up.
It was the second community group to fall into difficulties in a matter of months, after the West Harton Churches Action Station in Boldon Lane, South Shields, announced similar problems earlier this year.
Coun Enid Hetherington, who first raised the issue and has backed the centre, said ...