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The One Stop Shop concept
is a national initiative launched in 2000 by the Coal Industry Social
Welfare Organisation.
A successful Lottery bid enabled the organisation to employ development
workers to promote the work.
There are around 50 schemes at various stages of development in the UK with
7 in Scotland. The ethos is to create a facility which will be
self-supporting by ensuring long term funding and developing the skills of
those who will manage it.
In this way it will be responsive to change in the long term. Essentially
its role is to create a welcoming place which will provide variety of
community facilities under one roof.
The Coalburn project has been completed in three phases. Phase One was a
£45,000 upgrade of the premises to ensure that they were completely
accessible to people with disabilities, which included a disabled lift and
toilets.
Phase Two was a £550,000 renovation of the premises to make it suitable for
community use.
The final Phase was to access £142,000 of funding to staff the facility over
the next 2/3 years.
What you see today is the result of years of hard work , providing a
facility which the people of Coalburn can be proud of, a facility that will
be a major part in the continuing regeneration of the area.
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