Really unfair on the community. The council should be ashamed serving notice.
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Derron Grimshaw
9 years ago
I am disappointed in the way the council are treating this little cafe a pillow of the community.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
A local community group called Friends of Pennington Hall Park set up a voluntary group they took over a rundown building within the parks grounds and made a lovely , cosy, little cafe, they have organised community events that involve all ages of the community and creates a lovely atmosphere within the park, they really have brought this park back to life. They have just been informed that after they have been given a 5 yr lease on the building they have just been informed by the local council that they have 6 mths left and the building is being put to tender. These people and the local community are devastated as they really have put their heart and soul into this project
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Joan Keaveny
9 years ago
Fight for our community cafe, it's a wonderful, warm and friendly place to visit.
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Lesley whittle
9 years ago
Please save the tea rooms
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Karen reed
9 years ago
So sad yet another community place being lost
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Amanda Rigby
9 years ago
Fantastic community project run by volunteers
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Samantha Holden
9 years ago
It would be a terrible mistake shutting this cafe down. The volunteers are such lovely people and they deserve to carry on with it
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Sandra holt
9 years ago
Wigan council you should be ashamed
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Julie gregory
9 years ago
Leave this place as it is please its a wonderful place attracting lovely local people run by lovely local people
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Katrina Talbot
9 years ago
Save the tea rooms it's a lovely place x
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Such a lovely cafe, how dare they think of closing it. We aren't allowed to have anything in Leigh.
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Lindsey Ward
9 years ago
Leave it alone!
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MAGS DAVID
9 years ago
Please don't close this down
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Trish kinta
9 years ago
It is not about the tea rooms or the park but the current volunteers that run it. The returning clientele that come back for the friendly welcome and a chat, sometimes the only one they get all week. The Christmas day meals for the ones on their own for Christmas is just one of the community things they do. Being put out to tender will make it about business not community spirit. Why try to change a success story? Council always bleat on about community then want the to rip the heart out of it. Instead of sitting in your office putting pen to paper making decisions on something you probably know nothing about - go out and experience the tea rooms and the volunteers and then ask yourself why it needs to change.
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Kieran wilkinson
9 years ago
Please keep this going it's great for the community
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Anonymous
9 years ago
There is absolutely no reason why this facility should be closed down, other than to somehow make money. The place is run by volunteers who have built it up from nothing and it just seems that as soon as the council see something doing well, it's a matter of ' we''l have a bit of that success thanks and make some money out of it'. I find it an absolute disgrace that this can even happen.
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Kathryn O'Donnell
9 years ago
Absolutley disgusting decision by Wigan Council .
#SaveourTeaRooms
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sandra shone
9 years ago
Wigan council....why do this ? .....erm..money mabe ?
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Mrs D Webb
9 years ago
I feel disgusted with Wigan council regarding their plans for the cafe which is currently run by the Friends of Pennington park and will certainly boycott visiting the cafe should the change take place. What an insult it would be to all the hard working volunteers.
Really unfair on the community. The council should be ashamed serving notice.
I am disappointed in the way the council are treating this little cafe a pillow of the community.
A local community group called Friends of Pennington Hall Park set up a voluntary group they took over a rundown building within the parks grounds and made a lovely , cosy, little cafe, they have organised community events that involve all ages of the community and creates a lovely atmosphere within the park, they really have brought this park back to life. They have just been informed that after they have been given a 5 yr lease on the building they have just been informed by the local council that they have 6 mths left and the building is being put to tender. These people and the local community are devastated as they really have put their heart and soul into this project
Fight for our community cafe, it's a wonderful, warm and friendly place to visit.
Please save the tea rooms
So sad yet another community place being lost
Fantastic community project run by volunteers
It would be a terrible mistake shutting this cafe down. The volunteers are such lovely people and they deserve to carry on with it
Wigan council you should be ashamed
Leave this place as it is please its a wonderful place attracting lovely local people run by lovely local people
Save the tea rooms it's a lovely place x
Such a lovely cafe, how dare they think of closing it. We aren't allowed to have anything in Leigh.
Leave it alone!
Please don't close this down
It is not about the tea rooms or the park but the current volunteers that run it. The returning clientele that come back for the friendly welcome and a chat, sometimes the only one they get all week. The Christmas day meals for the ones on their own for Christmas is just one of the community things they do. Being put out to tender will make it about business not community spirit. Why try to change a success story? Council always bleat on about community then want the to rip the heart out of it. Instead of sitting in your office putting pen to paper making decisions on something you probably know nothing about - go out and experience the tea rooms and the volunteers and then ask yourself why it needs to change.
Please keep this going it's great for the community
There is absolutely no reason why this facility should be closed down, other than to somehow make money. The place is run by volunteers who have built it up from nothing and it just seems that as soon as the council see something doing well, it's a matter of ' we''l have a bit of that success thanks and make some money out of it'. I find it an absolute disgrace that this can even happen.
Absolutley disgusting decision by Wigan Council . #SaveourTeaRooms
Wigan council....why do this ? .....erm..money mabe ?
I feel disgusted with Wigan council regarding their plans for the cafe which is currently run by the Friends of Pennington park and will certainly boycott visiting the cafe should the change take place. What an insult it would be to all the hard working volunteers.