Volunteer-run day care centre turns profit
Volunteers who took over the running of a Northamptonshire day care centre after a council called the site "no longer fit for purpose" say they are running at a profit two years on.
Glamis Hall was closed in 2014 following cuts to Wellingborough Borough Council's social care budget.
Freehold of the building, on Goldsmith Road, was granted to volunteers a year later after they presented a business plan to run it as a community amenity. They also managed to obtain a grant for refurbishment.
Now the centre provides hot food and entertainment to more than 180 elderly people a week.
The volunteer group, Glamis Hall for All, says all the profits raised are being put straight back into the centre.
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