Your newspaper reports that Oxford City Council is seeking to remove East Oxford Community Association (EOCA) from the East Oxford Community Centre as it has determined that the association is not fit to run such a centre.

EOCA has managed the building on behalf of the local community since 1976, and the centre is a popular community resource.

The council say that they have had serious concerns about the management of the community centre for some time and want its own communities team to take-over control of the centre.

However:

1) The local community and groups using the centre are keen for the EOCA to stay in charge and have organised a petition and demo' against the council’s takeover.

2) EOCA is a charity overseen by the Charity Commission, and their latest accounts are on the commission’s website and are up to date and audited.

So what is the council’s evidence that the popular EOCA is not fit for purpose?

SIETSKE BOELES, Southfield Road, Oxford

 

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