Member

All these organisations need places to meet, organise, store supplies, hold events, support residents and build relationships. That is why community centres, libraries and village halls matter so much. In my constituency, I have seen it at first hand at the miners’ welfare centres in Moorends and Rossington, at working men’s clubs such as Ikeys in Dunscroft, in village halls in Owston Ferry and Crowle, at the Holmescarr centre and the Live Well centre on the Isle of Axholme, and at our community-run libraries in Bawtry and Hatfield. I know just what these places do and how important they are. And I have held surgeries in them, because people feel safe there and want to come and see me.