Rural Matters : Awm Helping Rural Communities to Help Themselves

Birmingham Post › August 23, 2005

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Helping rural communities to help themselves - that was the challenge we were set when the baton for socio-economic projects was passed from the Countryside Agency to Advantage West Midlands earlier this year.

Last year we helped to fund a pounds 3.5 million community centre in Highley, Shropshire; an isolated village which was rocked by the closure of the local colliery more than 35 years ago.

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Rural Matters : Awm Helping Rural Communities to Help Themselves

What is unique about the centre is that the residents of Highley have taken all the key decisions at every stage of develo...

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