THANK you for the lovely photos and the article about the march on Monday against Oxford City Council’s plans to take over the running of East Oxford Community Centre.

The article is slightly inaccurate about “keeping the revenue while running the hall”.

The EOCA (East Oxford Community Association) will have to pay the council for any spaces they want to use for events they want to run.

So its source of income has been cut off. (The Phoenix Lounge bar, the trading arm of the charity, has a separate deal.) Also if the centre was badly run for a number of years why did they give us such inadequate support?

And there have never been any allegations of financial mismanagement in relation to East Oxford Community Association.

Doing something about “a set of oddly-placed old buildings” is fine as long as they don’t demolish the main building – listed as a heritage asset.

Fortunately both councillors Bev Clack and Christine Simm are determined to keep it.

I am sure the council’s heart is in the right place and they really want to give East Oxford a lovely new community centre but it is the way they are doing things.

As a result there is no trust between us and the officers or some of the councillors.

SARAH LASENBY
Tawney Street
Oxford