Supporting Halfway Community Centre Charity

Woman standing outside a 1 storey brick building, with grills on the windows.

Back in June 2000, Hallam Land received the first of a few planning permissions for housing at Halfway in Sheffield. As part of the agreement with local residents and politicians, we built and then leased for a peppercorn rent, a community building to the Halfway Elderly People’s Club. Through the years, Hallam Land then agreed to pay for an extension to the building as more consents were issued, but as the members dwindled the monies were never asked for and the extensions were never carried out.

Last year COVID made it impossible for the club to meet and the Club ran in to financial difficulty. Step forward Tracy Rodgers who, with other local people took on the building and ran sessions for disadvantaged children during lockdown. Henry Boot Construction undertook some work to install a disabled ramp and carry out minor repairs to the building, and last month Hallam Land transferred the building to Tracy and Susan Mettam as Trustees of newly formed Halfway Community Centre Charity.