YOUR “Computer courses at risk in rent rise” (February 27) contains a number of errors.
Blackbird Leys Credit Union has shared this part of the community centre with Litz since 2002.
We have seen and benefited from activities facilitated by the Computer Centre in co-operation with many Blackbird Leys and Oxford organisations.
It is open four and a half days a week (not two as suggested by the council) for courses and open drop-in.
It is disappointing to find that council officers are ignorant of what is happening in the centre.
When council spokeswoman, Louisa Dean, says that the council would like to have the suite open for seven days a week, I wonder how they plan to fund it. To manage and supervise operation for seven days a week will involve paying for staff who are qualified both for supervision of the public and maintaining computer environment.
If that is the council’s ambition, unless they have money in abundance, they should be supporting the workers who already do the job with a great deal of goodwill and community commitment.
Litz is not a new organisation. Although they recently made changes to their position, they have been serving the community for 12 years.
What is wrong about the council’s proposals is not the rent rise, but taking away a carefully built-up service, and compelling the community to buy back, at a substantial price, the facilities it has itself run so well over many years.
JIM HEWITT treasurer, Blackbird Leys Credit Union Ltd Monks Close Blackbird Leys
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