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Phoenix Centre to recruit Manager
Work continues apace at the Phoenix Centre in Goodwick and foremost in the Phoenix Centre’s current plans is the recruitment of a manager and staff; along with efforts to raise the last tranche of funding to furnish and equip the centre in time for a September opening.
The project is being assisted in its staff recruitment by Collaborative Communities, a European Union and Welsh Assembly Government funded initiative that assists the development of social enterprises. Collaborative Communities, which is based in Pembrokeshire County Council’s Community Regeneration Unit, will oversee the recruitment process for a new manager that the project would like to appoint before the centre’s opening.
Workforce needed
The Centre will then expand its workforce to meet the anticipated rising demand for the centre’s catering and bar services, cleaning, maintenance, marketing, youth services and functions. PCC Community Regeneration Manager Sinead Henehan said,
“The Phoenix Project is a model social enterprise that will deliver much needed sporting and community facilities to the area. Alongside the well-established teams of volunteers that the project continues to successfully engage the new centre will also generate a number of jobs for the area. We are therefore only too pleased to help the project in its efforts to recruit the best available staff and to provide an independent element to that process.”
Strong structure put in place
John Deason, chairman of the management committee said,
“We are setting up a social enterprise company structure, allied to charitable status; such to ensure the centre is on a sound footing for its long term future. Such an enterprise will require professional staff and willing volunteers. We are also processing our last tranche of capital funding bids in order to furnish and equip the centre to its full potential. With a manager in post we will then finalise opening plans that will include guest sporting fixtures, special community open days and a formal opening ceremony. It has taken three years of hard work to get from the drawing board to this exciting new build – now the real task and even heavier work load begins!’
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