Community hub is handed £165,000 lifeline

A PROMISED £165,161 lifeline to save a community hub will come from the £2 million investment fund that Erewash council is planning to devote to boosting the borough.

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The report to council leader James Dawson and his senior team described it as “desperately needed” in an area where rates of domestic abuse are among the highest in Derbyshire.

Councillor Becca Everett ~ Erewash's deputy leader and the council's lead member for community engagement, said: “It was clear we needed to take swift action to safeguard the invaluable work of one of the borough's most important community organisations. Without this funding the future of the much-loved Cotmanhay Community Network would have been bleak. The grant is just the kind of thing that our new Erewash Investment Fund is designed for - to make a grassroots difference to local people.”

Erewash pledged in May to step in to safeguard the Cotmanhay Community Network - at the former Bennerley School. The hub has a flagship mission to help domestic abuse victims as well as being a welcoming space for children, families and pensioners.