28/10/2026
Dear community,
Coming in with a PSA (public service announcement). 📢📢📢
It’s been/is a year!
What most people don’t know is that behind the scenes we’ve been working through many changes in our continuous improvement project over here at VPCC.
One of the most significant has been a recent restructure. Responding to financial limitations, we now have less hours to try and deliver something similar* in aims n values. This means reinventing, building efficiencies and having to be super intentional with what time and resource we have.
For context, this relates to a mixture of our income only reaching a certain threshold and our operational grants CPI not tracking as high as real terms increases on everything from wages to consumables to suppliers. And there’s only so long you can absorb that.
We are in no way special, we see it affecting everyone from visitors to regular hirers, our project partners and other centres. It sucks. We see you, we get it, none of it adds up, everyone’s having to make tough calls.
Here’s another one of ours. To preserve the wellbeing of our team and internal culture, we are closing the office Wednesdays.
Never fear! Our centre will still be open, functional and available to all hirers but we won’t be.
We’ll be shuffling our days so we have one cross over between us 3 part timers. This is essential time to connect, scheme, share intel. It’s important. We gotta practice what we preach!
Collaborate, imagine, thrive ~ in new, inventive ways.
See erryone Mon, Tues, Thurs or Fridays 9-3pm from now on.
Appreciate your understanding!
And here’s a call to support your local hubs and hero’s where you can, it’s hard out here, be kind and know we are always trying our best!
