The Seahouses Community Hub was built in 1975 at a cost of £21,000. In early 2007, the management of the building became the responsibility of North Sunderland and Seahouses Development Trust.
 We plan to rebuilding the existing community centre to create the Seahouses Community Hub, providing a financially sustainable, energy efficient, multipurpose, fully accessible community focal point for the people of Seahouses and the surrounding area.
The Hub will provide educational, sports, social and economic facilities for the benefit of the community and its visitors. The fully accessible building will have office space, function rooms, training resources, indoor and outdoor sports amenities, children’s play areas, catering facilities, storage space and car parking.
The building has been designed after extensive community consultation and the facilities will allow us to address the needs of an isolated, rural community.
 The Hub will sustain existing services and encourage provision of new ones including the Seahouses Youth Project, education and training courses and advice services. It will stimulate sustainable growth in our local economy by creating jobs, providing a home for new social enterprises and allowing better business and employment support. We will create a building that is used regularly by our community: residents and visitors, young people, the elderly and people with disabilities. It will be a real hub, used by up to 30 local voluntary groups each year. Local people will engage with the building and the groups that use it, and participate in managing these community resources.
The building will be energy efficient, use renewable energy for heat and power and produces less waste; it will be a ‘flagship’ in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
The building will generate income that can sustain it in the future and become a valuable asset and social enterprise for the Development Trust. Our project will strengthen the management of the Hub by the local community, ensure its viability and sustainability, and contribute to the long-term sustainability of the Development Trust.
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