A COMMUNITY initiative which played a crucial role in saving Penistone Leisure Centre and has managed numerous local projects during the past decade will fold next week.
Penistone and District Community Partnership currently supports not-for-profit bike hire business Cycle Penistone, Grow Penistone which runs Springvale Community Garden and Sporting Penistone, the group in charge of the leisure centre.
PDCP trustees have decided to close the venture on New Year's Eve to allow the three projects to run independently.
Eileen Symonds, chairman of PDCP, said: "The board of trustees will cease to trade on December 31 to make way for three new organisations.
"Grow Penistone and Sporting Penistone are now new charities in their own right. Cycle Penistone will be relocating due to the current high running costs at its current site but will be using the quiet winter months to develop a new programme of events to be launched in the spring.
"The trustees are grateful to everyone who has supported us over the years and hope the people of Penistone will continue to be involved with these new organisations working for and with the community."
