Petition to save day centre in trouble

More than five hundred people have signed a petition to keep an African Caribbean Day Centre in Wellingborough open.

The Centre has been a place for older people in Northamptonshire to meet and make friends for more than 30 years.

However, from tomorrow, it will be run by volunteers because the money to keep it going has run out.

It comes less than a fortnight after another elderly day care centre in the town was closed following funding issues. Wellingborough Borough Councillors voted to push on with plans to close nearby Glamis Hall, because building repairs and keeping the service going would cost too much.

Wellingborough African Caribbean Association says it gets about £52,000 a year from Northamptonshire County Council to run the Caribbean day centre.

However, with the council changing the way it funds places like this at the end of October, the Wellingborough Centre could be the next to close.

Click below to watch a report from Sarah Cooper.