The
Bridge Centre was established as a community facility in 1967.
Based in restored
mill-workers’ cottages owned by the Lamp
of Lothian Collegiate Trust, the Centre offers a generic programme
of activities to the people of Haddington and the surrounding
area.
The Bridge Centre is managed by a Board of Directors. It is also
led by a Supporters Group made up of local people and representatives
of user groups and community organisations. The Centre was accepted
as a charity by the Inland Revenue on 13th February 1992. Our declared
aim as laid down in our Constitution is as follows:-
“The
aim of the Centre shall be charitable namely to promote the
benefit
of the
inhabitants of Haddington and its environs without
distinction of political religious or other opinions, the objects
of the Centre being:-
a) To bring together in association the inhabitants, voluntary
organisations and local authorities in a common effort to advance
educational and further the health of the said inhabitants;
b) To provide a meeting place and other facilities for the purposes
of social welfare, leisure, recreation and education so that the
conditions of life of the said inhabitants may be improved; and
c)
To secure the provision of and/or maintain a community centre
and provide
for its upkeep
and management (in co-operation with
the appropriate local authority where circumstances require) in
furtherance of the aforementioned objects or any of them.”
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