The Woodville Activity Center in Keighley, West Yorkshire, has been a place where people with disabilities, young people, and the elderly have gotten horticultural training.
Now, thanks to a grant from the UK's Towns Fund, the center will be able to turn the redundant buildings on its site into what the BBC calls a "social enterprise hub for businesses."
The funding will go to landscaping work to create growing areas and polytunnels, as well as to bring redundant buildings back into use, including workshops, kitchens, offices, and classrooms.
"We have a real vision for Woodville, and the funding from the Keighley Towns Fund will help us to drive that forward by investing in infrastructure," says the director of Yorgreen CIC, the community interest company that currently owns the site.
"There is nothing else quite like it anywhere, and their vision to become a net zero site with office and training space is such a huge boost for Keighley," says the chair of the Towns Fund.
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