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A rural community group has successfully taken over a former South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture (SLLC) hall. Thancard Trust has been granted a Community Asset Transfer (CAT) of Thankerton Hall following council approval at a meeting of South Lanarkshire Council’s Housing and Technical Resources Committee on October 8. The trust has had temporary lease of the hall since October last year and submitted a request to purchase the facility; now approved, the organisation will pay £9000 for the sale. The Thancard Trust has been in operation since 2022 and they currently have a concessionary lease of Thankerton Hall and use it for the purposes of operating a Scout troop with hires to local community groups for their own activities. Proposals for the community group for the facility are to continue to occupy it, use it and maintain the building long term. The hall was previously managed by SLLC, however in 2014, it was announced that they could no longer sustain the facility. The council then invited local organisations to express interest in these properties through a CAT with support from the Community Fightback Fund (CFF) and the Renewable Energy Fund (REF) to keep these facilities open while this process took place.
