The Centre is in your hands!
There are different ways you can get involved in the Kirkgate Centre.
If you would like more information, a tour of the building or would like to become a volunteer or trustee, please contact us.
Visit the centre: if you have never been to the centre, come and have a look around – let us know what you think.
Become a volunteer: We have some paid staff, but its the volunteers that are the lifeblood of our centre..
Become a volunteer trustee: as a charity, the centre is governed by a group of unpaid trustees.
Become a supporter: in a time of dwindling public funding, we still have ambitious plans.
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There are different ways you can get involved in the Kirkgate Centre.
If you would like more information, a tour of the building or would like to become a volunteer or trustee, please contact us.
Visit the centre: if you have never been to the centre, come and have a look around – let us know what you think.
- We are owned by our membership – the more people who own us, the more people we are accountable to.
- It shows your support – this means a lot when securing funding or trying to get things done.
- It gives you the power to call meetings, vote for trustees, and become a trustee yourself.
Become a volunteer: We have some paid staff, but its the volunteers that are the lifeblood of our centre..
- Volunteers deliver most of the activities in the centre.
- Many volunteers run their own independent groups within the centre.
- Volunteers ensure that the centre will always be here and will always be affordable.
- office and reception - helping to run the centre
- volunteer centre assistants - working with the Centre Assistant on looking after the building and helping groups
- community café - running a high quality café which in turn funds many other activities
- supporting older people - working with the staff team to ensure older people have a great time at the centre
- Shipley Alternative - helping to set up and run our new indy marketplace
- Live @ Kirkgate - transforming the centre into a live music venue
- ICT and social media - helping the Centre enter the 21st Century with computers, websites and social media
Become a volunteer trustee: as a charity, the centre is governed by a group of unpaid trustees.
- Our trustees are elected by and from our membership every year.
- Trustees are local people in full control of the centre.
- Trustees make sure we are focussed on what matters.
- Trustees make sure we are run well and Shipley has the centre it deserves.
Become a supporter: in a time of dwindling public funding, we still have ambitious plans.
- You can help us by helping to fundraise.
- You can make a donation.
- Donations don’t need to mean money – skills, experience and materials are always needed, especially during our refurbishment.
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