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<\/p>\nIn the face of the rising cost of living, the West Marsh Community Centre is more important than ever<\/p>\n
From left, Lauren Little, Chris Stanland and Josh Bray at the West Marsh Community Centre(Image: Submitted)<\/p>\n
Grimsby’s West Marsh Community Centre has more power thanks to renewables giant, \u00d8rsted<\/a>. The firm donated \u00a313,600 for a new eco-friendly boiler and support for young families with new containers for the West Marsh Baby Bank.<\/p>\n West Marsh Community Centre <\/a>serves as a vibrant hub, offering classes, a warm space and a baby bank. The multi-use games area (MUGA pitch) hosts friendly matches between taxi drivers, helping to sustain community spirit and connection in an isolated job.<\/p>\n In the face of rising living costs, the centre\u2019s baby bank provides essential items for families with babies and young children up to age seven, including nappies, wipes, clothing, and, when available, bigger items like cots and buggies. All items are free to parents due to donations and dedicated volunteers.<\/p>\n \u00d8rsted’s East Coast Community Fund grant will provide a switch to a more energy-efficient heating system, reducing the centre\u2019s carbon footprint while delivering warmer, more reliable spaces for classes, events, and community activities. The separate, smaller emergency grant allowed the centre to purchase weatherproof, secure containers to protect the baby bank\u2019s stock from rain leaks and enable better space to manage stock.<\/p>\n \u201cThis funding marks an important step in making West Marsh Community Centre more resilient and sustainable, so we can keep offering vital services to families and the wider community,\u201d said Chris Stanland, Community Development Worker of West Marsh Community Centre.<\/p>\n \u201cBy investing in a greener heating system, we\u2019re reducing running costs and emissions, and the weatherproof storage grant helps ensure babies and families don\u2019t face gaps in essential supplies.\u201d Lauren Little, Senior Stakeholder Manager, \u00d8rsted added: \u201c\u00d8rsted is proud to support local communities through programmes that align with our energy transition goals.<\/p>\n “The heating upgrade demonstrates our commitment to cleaner, more efficient energy in community facilities, and the emergency storage grant reflects our focus on safeguarding critical community services during challenging times.\u201d The centre\u2019s work – providing a warm space, education and activity opportunities, and the baby bank – has become even more essential as families navigate higher living costs.<\/p>\n The combined impact of these two grants will help ensure West Marsh Community Centre remains a welcoming, reliable hub for residents now and well into the future. The West Marsh Baby Bank is open on Thursdays 9.30am to 11.30am, with more times being added during spring.<\/p>\n Did you know you can make Grimsby Live a preferred source of news in Google, which will mean you get more of our breaking news, exclusives, and must-read stories straight away? Here’s more information<\/a> about what this means and how to do it – you can also do it straight away by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the face of the rising cost of living, the West Marsh Community Centre is more important than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[2072,442,287,29713],"class_list":{"0":"post-53808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orsted","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-grimsby","10":"tag-orsted","11":"tag-west-marsh"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116333665677076426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}