Glendale Gateway Trust : building for the local economy
An initiative of Berwick Borough Council, the Community Council of Northumberland and Northumberland County Council, the Trust was set up in 1996 to address rural decline identified in a village needs appraisal and ‘to promote, improve, maintain, encourage and advance the benefit of the inhabitants of Glendale.’ So far it has delivered a community centre, a youth centre and other community facilities. Affordable housing is the centre-piece of plans for regeneration, and the Trust has been instrumental in attracting funding of more than £2 million into the area.
Projects include a Market Towns initiative, the conversion of a former workhouse into a community centre, and the renovation of a disused mechanical institute into a youth drop-in centre.
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