ABOUT GRASSINGTON HUB
Grassington Hub is an award-winning, volunteer led community hub situated in the heart of Grassington Village.
The Hub provides a wide range of services to residents, local businesses, and visitors to the area.
We support the people that need help, creating new visions for our bit of the Dales and helping to make our communities strong and cohesive. Working from Hetton to Cracoe, and Appletreewick to Arncliffe, 2000 residents plus 1000 visitors use our services each year.
Our services are run by our 80+ volunteers. We couldn’t do what we do without them. Their support helps make sure our activities are affordable.
OUR WORK FALLS INTO FOUR MAIN AREAS:
Community Hub and Library
Grassington Hub & Community Library provides a focal point for community-led activities. It’s used by 800 people a year on over 12,000 occasions and offers a place for both residents and visitors to access help, support and information, photocopying, and office services, or just have a chat. We support local groups with an events box office and local press liaison, provide a community meeting space, organise drop-in daytime activities, and a monthly community cinema.
Support to Vulnerable People
This growing area of work supports local people to tackle rural social isolation and loneliness. Our open access and targeted well-being activities include monthly Community Lunches, The Friday Hub wellbeing cafe, Men’s Shed, Community Garden, knit and natter groups, family history group, chess clubs, book clubs, and a home library service for housebound and other users.
Staying Healthy, Independent and Connected (SHIC)
Funded by NYC Health & Adult Services until March 2027, the SHIC project seeks to enable residents of North Yorkshire to continue to live healthy, happy, and independent lives within their communities and to reduce, delay or prevent their need for long-term statutory social care or health service care and support.
Community Anchor Organisation
Our role as Community Anchor for Grassington and Upper Wharfedale is funded by NY Localities Team until 31st March 2028. The funding received, from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, will enable us to sustain the services we currently provide whilst investing in us to develop further as an organisation.
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