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Tarvin Community Centre Achieves the grade!

25th April 2018 @ 6:06am – by Tarvin Community Centre
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The Community Centre Committee is delighted to announce that their Policies and Procedures have been awarded the Hallmark Level 2 and Level 3 Standards. This follows on from attaining Hallmark Level 1 less than one year earlier. The accreditation scheme is run by Action for Communities in Rural England (ACRE) and is a benchmark for measuring and ensuring the effectiveness and competence of volunteer run village halls and community centres.

Tarvin is only the second Community Centre in Cheshire to succeeded in achieving all three levels.

The process has not been easy, and all credit must go to Alan Wilkinson, Jane Lush and Vic Shuttlewood who, together with the unstinting assistance of Claire Jones, the Community Development Officer for Cheshire Community Action, worked their way slowly and painstakingly through the paperwork. With the advice and support of Claire, every policy and procedure was checked, measured, refined and rewritten until it met the exacting standards laid down. Given that the standard was often written with legalistic exactitude, this has taken some time and patience.

Committee member, Sue Hardacre said "Procedures have to be set to meet precise definitions and to encompasses all eventualities. There are times when, in the context of volunteers running a small organisation, they seem excessively detailed and to run counter to common sense. I am exposing no secrets if I say that Vic and Alan often approached issues from diametrically opposite points of view. But from this creative tension has come a great outcome, a set of policies and procedures that will ensure that the Community Centre runs efficiently for the foreseeable future".

There are several benefits that come with the awards. Customers and users alike, can be reassured that the Centre is being well-run and audited by an external body. Anyone considering joining the Committee will know that the arduous work of getting the policies right has been achieved and Funding bodies, when approached will know that their monies are being invested in a well run, well managed organisation. The Committee may be volunteers, but the awards mean that they are working as a professionally unit.

Ed: Not just the Committee but the community will benefit from the work that the team have put in. They deserve our thanks.

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