Better days ahead for Littlehampton’s Tamarisk Centre

Councillors were contemplating cuts to the Tamarisk and its sister, Bognor’s Laburnum Centre, in an overall £2m savings package, as Arun set priorities for the next four years.

Now Age UK West Sussex, which took over the two centres in July, 2006, with an annual grant from Arun decreasing by £10,000 each year, has drafted its own plan for 2013-16.

The emphasis not on closure or scaling back, but on “developing two thriving activity centres for older people that are financially stable”.

Diane Henderson, chief executive of Age UK West Sussex, outlines the future plans in a review of the centres for 2012, which will go before Arun’s overview select committee on January 15.

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