The charity Hampton & Hampton Hill Voluntary Care are urgently fundraising for a new roof at Greenwood Community Centre. 

The charity, which provides support to local people, runs three minibuses and runs the Greenwood Community Centre is primarily funded by grants and small donations.

They are finding that the cost of living crisis is having an impact on the charity and now that their roof is leaking the need for fundraising is bigger and more immediate than ever. 

They need to raise £52,000 just to cover the cost of the new roof, which does not take into account extra costs that may incur if it is found that work is needed on other things. 

So far the Just Giving has raised £1,688. 

The centre has about 300 registered clients who use its services and about 120 volunteers working in the community.

The community centre has about 33 registered clients. (Photo Credit: Greenwood Community Centre).

Rob McRae-Adams, chief executive officer of Hampton and Hampton Hill Voluntary Care said: "We just about keep the centre ticking over and we never really make enough money, it's a very small intimate centre, its friendly and its in a very residential area, so we're never really going to make it a cost effective community centre like others might be with larger spaces but we want it to serve our community, we want it to be a hub of activity, if we can give our spaces free we do."

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He added: "Because we don't make a lot of money from the rentals we don't actually have money to maintain the building as well as we could so we don't have that pocket of money to replace the roof.

"It's endangering the work we do in the community as a result. If we can't maintain the building, where's the money going to come from? It sounds like the two issues are separate but they're not."

The roof which needs repairing. (Photo Credit: Greenwood Community Centre).

There is concern that if the money can't be raised and the roof cannot be repaired it will become difficult to provide services. 

Rob said: "If we don't manage to raise substantial amounts of money we will probably run out of funds in March next year. Not just for the roof as well but for the charity to sustain its work.

"The roof has brought on a critical problem that we have to deal with now before it gets even more expensive and if we don't raise those funds it'll impact on the work we do in the community and we need to raise the funds so it doesn't."

As well as fundraising for the new roof they are also looking for donors and a patron for the charity, ahead of their fiftieth anniversary next year.

Donate to the Just Giving here. 

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