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Community Centres

Running A Community Building

Bradford CVS employs a community centre support worker to help support and advise voluntary organisations which run community buildings. Clive Whittaker has been in post since 2007. He is aided by his fellow development workers at Bradford CVS

We work in several ways:

  • Individual advice by personal visits to centres
  • Individual advice over the telephone and email network
  • A Bradford wide electronic email network of community centres
  • Advice and news through Briefing Briefing Bradford and this website
  • Training management committees and individuals
  • Signposting to specialist organisations
  • Network events

Contact Clive on 01274 722772 or send Clive an email.

Personal visits to centres and other organisations include help on:

  • Action planning
  • Assessing vision and mission
  • Business, development and strategic planning
  • What to do in a crisis
  • Committee, governance and management issues
  • Employing staff and volunteers
  • Environmental aspects of running a building
  • Funding advice
  • Measuring your impact and effectiveness
  • Lease and renting issues
  • Marketing Issues
  • Outcomes and outputs
  • How to work in partnership
  • Quality standards (such as PQASSO)
  • Training and courses
  • How to be a well run community centre

Community centres and village halls with websites

The Community Centres Map

We have created a map showing the location of Community Centres and other community spaces in Bradford District. If you are not on this map and would like to be please get in touch with Clive on 01274 722772 or send him an email.


You can also view the Community Centres in the Bradford District map at this link.