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To modernise and re-furbish the 20 year old Community Centre, making the kitchen, lobby and toilets up to date, hygienic, safe, disabled friendly and a pleasure to use for ALL users . To do this by, replacing all flooring to listed areas with an anti-slip floor covering, replacing the outdated and damaged fitted kitchen with a fully equipped catering kitchen that would enable lunch clubs for the elderly and disabled local residents to operate. To replace all sanitary wares and cubicle fittings in both ladies and gents toilets with more hygienic and modern equipment, providing electric hand dryers, liquid soap dispensers and replacing all the outdated and in places damaged, plumbing with up to date fittings.
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Bysingwood Community Centre is managed by West Faversham Community Association a group of local volunteers many of whom are associated with one of the regular groups that make use of the centre to host their sport, children's clubs or other activities. The centre was opened just over 20 years ago after some years of fund raising by the residents of West Faversham, who felt that the area needed somewhere they could all make use of to host community meetings, various sports activities, family celebrations and for locally based clubs to meet. Previous committees had sadly neglected the buildings repairs and maintenance, leaving the current committee with the goal of repairing and refurbishing a venue desperately in need of being brought into the 21st Century, so that it may continue to host the current events and functions and encourage even more to make use of a centre built by local residents for many more years. Quotes have been received for the refurbishments for a total of £68,000 this covers all the planned modernisation to the kitchen, toilets and lobby areas, including kitchen appliances and also including providing disabled toilet facilities. However the toilets for the disabled part of the project has been completed with funding granted by Awards For All, costing £6,674, therefore the refurbishments revised total is now £61,326. Although fund raising events organised by the committee have been held, they were not the financial success we were hoping for, we do though plan to host bootfairs and other events this summer with hopes of raising money to help with the committees goals, but we are sensible enough to realise that with the total required it would be years before enough tcould be raised in such a manner to complete the projects. In that time more and more repairs and modernisations would become necessary, repairs that raised funds would need to cover.