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Associated Oil Company

Also in 1913, unfavorable commuting conditions prompted the Associated Oil Company to build a company town called the Avon Village and by 1920 consisted of 65 cottages, a one-room schoolhouse, worker's bunkhouse, a dining hall and a clubhouse that included an indoor swimming pool, auditorium and a two-lane bowling alley which serves today as the Refinery Museum.

Hoylake Parade community centre

Hoylake Parade Community Centre is a multi-purpose public building located in Hoylake, Wirral, which serves as a community centre for the local area.

Ladora Savings Bank

The building remained a center of life in Ladora: during various times in its history, it served as a community center, housing a Red Cross office during World War II and a civil defense shelter during the Cold War; it was also a polling place for many years.

Leyfields

The estate has St Andrew's Methodist church, a Community Centre, shops and Wigginton Park, the home to Tamworth Rugby Union Football Club.

Mount Pleasant, Sheffield

When the building was vacated by the government it fell into a state of near ruin during the late 1960s and early 1970s but was restored in the mid-1970s and converted into a Community centre with the stables used as a Youth club known as The Stables Connexions Centre.

Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre

Situated on 4 hectares of land beside Sungei Punggol, Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre houses a community club, and feature sports facilities including four swimming pools, five water slides one of the slides have four colours similar to the slides at East Coast Park which is now closed.


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Abbeydale Picture House

In 2003 the Friends of Abbeydale Picture House—boasting patrons including Michael Palin, Peter Stringfellow and the John Lewis Partnership—was formed to "restore and manage the 'Picture Palace' as a community centre for the performing arts and visual media."

Aberfeldie Football Club

Originally known as ‘The Gorillas’, the football team wore a navy blue guernsey with an ACC monogram in reference to the Aberfeldie Community Centre which began in 1944 and evolved into the humble beginnings of the football section.

Akoupé-Zeudji

Akoupé-Zeudji has a private school and a public school, built by the government of the Abidjan Department under the leadership of Governor Pierre Djédji Amondji, and also has a community centre, a private vocational training centre, and a nightclub.

Anna Regina

Anna Regina has a market, a community centre and a secondary school.

Anu Singh

In June 2005, concern was expressed in the New South Wales Parliament about Singh's employment with the Cabramatta Community Centre.

Art Center

Arts centre, a type of community centre that focuses on the arts

Aspendale Gardens, Victoria

In Aspendale Gardens, there is a 7-Eleven petrol station, a shopping centre, a dentist, a kindergarten, a primary school, a vet, a community centre and a retirement village named Richfields.

Brookenby Church

Following the closure of RAF Binbrook, the building was converted to a community centre to serve the newly formed village of Brookenby.

Camp Hill, West Midlands

The former King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys building is now a community centre; the school relocated to Kings Heath in 1956.

Carseland, Alberta

It boasted six grain elevators, a railway station, school, general store, barber shop and pool-room, post office, restaurant, garage and Ford car dealer, well house, lumber yard, hardware store, meat market, bank, stock yards, two churches, hotel and community centre.

Castle Green, London

Castle Green contains a secondary school, Jo Richardson Community School, a library, theatre, arts and conference spaces, sports facilities which house Barking RFC and a community centre.

Cauldwell, Bedford

The Redeemed Christian Church of God holds its meetings at the community centre on Faraday Square and Kelvin Avenue

Debert

The community has two churches (United Baptist Church and United Church of Canada), a community centre, two vehicle repair garages, two convenience stores, and a volunteer fire department.

Dimbulah, Queensland

Community groups include the Dimbulah Community Centre, St Anthony's Catholic church, Men's Shed, Lions Club, QCWA, Chamber of Commerce, museum association, and several other faith-based groups.

Farmway LRT Station

It opened for passenger service in November 2007 to facilitate the completion of Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre and Anchorvale Community Centre within the vicinity.

Flagstaff Hill, South Australia

The team sports hub of Flagstaff Hill is the Flagstaff Hill Sports and Community Centre, home of the Flagstaff Hill Football Club, Flagstaff Hill Cricket Club, Flagstaff Hill Tennis Club, Flagstaff Athletics, Happy Valley Netball Club and Southern Hills Little Athletics.

Fo Guang Shan Temple, Auckland

The Fo Guang Shan temple is a large temple and community centre of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist movement in the East Tamaki/Flatbush suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.

Frederick Kashimoto

Kashimoto was born in Mufulira where he started his soccer career at Mutende Community Centre with whom he won the Dunlop Cup organised by the Copperbelt Amateur Football Association.

Gulargambone

These include the improvement of the local hospital, creating a multi-purpose health centre, the opening of a new cinema and the transformation of the old cinema, Simmo's Bazaar, into 2828, the community centre, featuring a cafe and a gift shop.

Hayredin

The local Bulgarian Orthodox church of Saint Paraskeva was built in 1858-1862, and the Prosveta community centre (chitalishte) was founded in 1909.

Ipswich Airport

The site has since been redeveloped as the Ravenswood housing estate; the Grade II listed terminal building was retained and has been converted into a community centre and flats by Ashwell Property Group.

Kill Buljo

The bride's family is gathered at the traditional engagement coffee at Kautokeino community centre when the Deadly Sapmi Assassination Squad, consisting of Tampa Buljo, Crazy Beibifeit, Dr. Kjell Driver and Bud Light assault the premises, draw guns, and fire on anything that moves.

Kinchela, New South Wales

In 2001, the Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation Strategic Plan was launched at Redfern Community Centre by the Governor of New South Wales, Professor Marie Bashir.

Longwell Green

Longwell Green Sports F.C. play their home games on the sports ground and have a clubhouse at the rear of the Community Centre.

Midnapore, Calgary

Midnapore has a mall, the Midnapore Mall, a community centre that it shares with the adjacent community of Sundance, as well as many fast food restaurants including McDonalds, Wendy's, Tim Hortons, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.

Muraka Nature Reserve

In nearby Oonurme village, a small permanent exhibition about the nature reserve is on display in the community centre.

Newstead, Victoria

It has two pubs, community centre, cafe, a general store, a Rural Transaction Centre (with Internet café, Bendigo Bank, library, daycare and other services), a small licensed IGA and bakery, a swimming pool, a hairdresser as well as a monthly newspaper, the Newstead Echo.

North Western Reform Synagogue

It has around 2000 adult and 1000 child members, and is twinned with the Leo Baeck Community Centre in Haifa and the Jewish community in Kerch, a city in Ukraine.

Ocean Falls, British Columbia

The school was closed for only three days; several teachers went to Bella Bella to obtain school desks and classes were held throughout the community, from the community centre to the Royal Canadian Legion branch pub (grade 12 students) to part of the Martin Inn, a 600 bed hotel.

Onehouse

There is also a community centre shared by neighbouring villages, Shelland and Harleston (further northwest), where children and adults alike enjoy a wide number of activities including a weekly youth club.

Oxford Centre for Mission Studies

St. Margaret's Institute Community Centre, the first building constructed on nearby Polstead Road, was built following a subscription by parishioners of SS Philip and James Church in 1889 for the building of a Working Men's Institute "to provide rational amusement and instruction for working men of any creed, sect, or opinions, who may thus be kept out of public houses".

Port Williams, Nova Scotia

The village has a community centre which also operates as a C@P site.

Prévost, Quebec

The Prévost railway station is now a community centre and stop on the Parc Linéaire Le P'tit Train du Nord bicycle and hiking trail.

Silverburn, Midlothian

It has a small community centre, with a garden surrounding the hall, which featured on the BBC Television programme The Beechgrove Garden in June 2008.

Southville, Bristol

New bars and restaurants and the nationally renowned Tobacco Factory theatre attract visitors to the area, while the Southville Community Centre and Southville School have become the central features of a vibrant community atmosphere.

St Albans, New Zealand

In July 2011, the demolition of the former library, which houses the community centre, was ordered by the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority.

St. Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral, Toronto

The first holy liturgy of the parish was carried out on 12 August 1962 in the "Zhelevo Hall", a community centre established by Aegean Macedonians from the village of Želevo (Antartiko).

St. Vital, Winnipeg

The St. Vital area contains a number of community centres, including the St. Vital Centennial Arena and the Jonathan Toews Community Centre (formerly the Dakota Community Centre).

Sungai Ara

Church of the Divine Mercy, a Roman Catholic church and Christian Community Centre has been constructed since 2007 and completed in 2010 will be a landmark for the township.

Trinity Centre

Local leaders looking to ease tensions agreed for Trinity to be deconsecrated and given to the public, for use as a community centre, with a focus on activities for young people.

Tuggeranong

On the edge of the lake are a number of community facilities, including Lake Tuggeranong College, a school catering to years 11 and 12 (16 – 18 years old); a library, which is part of the ACT Library and Information Services, a community centre, and the Tuggeranong Arts Centre.

UK and Ireland BBYO

‘Mercaz’ means ‘centre’ and this chapter is based at the heart of the London Jewish population, in the incredible new Jewish community centre, JW3.

Wellington Road, Cork

The road is also home to an Eircom telephone exchange, a backpacker's hostel, several bed and breakfasts, a refugee community centre, a dentist, a currently disused newsagents, and a primary school.

West Kelowna

The Mount Boucherie Community Centre offers Royal LePage Place arena, home to the BCHL team the West Kelowna Warriors, and Jim Lind Arena for ice sport clubs such as hockey, figure skating and ringette.

Whitehawk

The Community Centre, along with a new library, including a toy library for children was opened by Princess Alexandra in November 1973 in Whitehawk Road.