[Gayle]

Still can't see what the problem is here. If the community centre had obtained the funds illegally and if you had hard evidence of that then I can understand people's concern. However, this is not the case, the community centre has applied for a funding grant for a project which they feel is worthwhile (as does the Big Lottery it would appear) and they've been granted the funding. That should be 'end of'!

The funding pot that this was obtained from was Reaching Communities - it's main purpose to reach communities that other organisations etc would not be able to. This could be geographical, disadvantaged, disabled, ethnic minorities, etc.

To be honest, Scaitcliffe house have done a good job if they've got money out of this pot because justifying the criteria was so tricky that it was hard to apply for. At the end of the day that's £129k more money in Hyndburn's economy which has to be a good thing.

No one has given any good reasons for why this should not have been given to this group apart from a few 'possibly slanderous' slurs!