Tang Hall community centre funding probe

Residents in the Tang Hall area are asking why a £10,000 grant made last year for the improvement of the Tang Hall Community Centre has not been spent?

The money was part of the very much reduced budget now made available to Ward Committees.

It was to have been spent on remodelling the Centre, making it potentially easier to generate additional income.

The Centre is one of 4 in the City which are under threat of closure following the decision of the Council to stop its annual support grants.

Tang Hall CC, was at the centre of a controversy earlier in the year, when all the key posts on the management committee were taken over by local Labour Councillors.

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LibDem Councillor Ann Reid outside Moor Lane Youth Centre

LibDem Councillor Ann Reid outside Moor Lane Youth Centre

We also understand that the Council is considering closing down the Moor Lane youth centre in Dringhouses.

The well established and popular centre serves the whole of the west of York and is one of very few purpose designed facilities aimed at young people in the City’s suburbs.

Several days out in Dusseldorf, Seoul, Rio, Shanghai, Chicago, New York, Paris, Nice, Cape Town, etc

Seoul

Seoul

The York Council has now published a list of foreign travel trips made by members and officials in the period from May 2011 to June 2013.

The list ends before the latest round of Tour De France related trips to Paris.

The full list can be downloaded from here.

NB. Some of the travel and hotel costs were covered by third party sponsorship