BRCC Annual General Meeting

BRCC held its AGM on Wednesday 7th October 2009 at Haynes Village Hall.

Download the 2008/09 Annual Report & Accounts here

The Voluntaryworks consortium, of which BRCC is a founder member, has been awarded nearly £0.5 million from the Big Lottery’s BASIS II programme to provide funding and development advice to voluntary and community groups across Bedfordshire. The project, which will be delivered over three years by BRCC, CVS, Voluntary & Community Action and Voluntary Action Luton, will also include a ‘circuit rider’ giving IT advice.

BRCC has produced a leaflet outlining its plans for the beautiful Victorian building that stands at Ridgmont Station on the Marston Vale railway line.

Unused for several decades, the building is currently in a very poor state of repair. However, with the investment of time, money and a little imagination, BRCC is aiming to convert the disused building into a multi-purpose centre serving the needs of the local community, surrounding businesses and train travellers alike.

This will include:

• Two ground-floor rooms available for community activities
• Office space across three first-floor rooms for small-scale/start up social enterprises
• Heritage display area in the original Victorian booking hall
• Exhibitions linked to the history of the Bedford-Bletchley railway line and the brick making industry that it served for many years
• Office of the Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership
• Fully equipped kitchen that will service a much-needed café at the station, together with toilet facilities
• Links to the Marston Vale “Hidden Britain Centre” walks and the proposed Bedford to Milton Keynes Waterway towpath walks

Download Ridgmont Station leaflet, here

July issue of Network published

Download the latest issue of our six-monthly newsletter. Subjects covered in this issue include:

Walking 4 Health
Green Infrastructure Planning
Wheels2Work
Community Rail month on the Marston Vale line
BRCC’s future plans
Ecological consultancy

Download July 2009 issue of Network, our newsletter, here