An emergency meeting to be held later this month at an under threat community hall is said to the “last chance” to save the venue from closure.

Residents have been invited to attend the public meeting and AGM at Dalgrain Community Hall, in Avon Street in Grangemouth’s old town area at 6pm on Tuesday, November 17.

The hall is currently run as a charity operated by a board of trustees, but now the building could possibly go the way of the town’s Bowhouse Community Centre and become boarded up, closed off facility of no use to the community whatsoever.

In an online post members stated: "We need local residents, hall users, community groups, volunteers and supporters to come along, have your say and help secure the future of our community hall.”

The meeting is due to take place in Dalgrain Hall next week (Picture: Submitted)

placeholder image — The meeting is due to take place in Dalgrain Hall next week (Picture: Submitted)

Back in May 2024 Dalgrain Community Hall was one of the many premises under threat of closure as a result of the local authority’s bid to make massive financial savings and it’s promotion of Community Asset Transfers (CAT) in an effort to offload the day to day responsibility of running council owned premises onto members of the public.

At the start of 2024 the council’s strategic property review identified a number of council-owned buildings could go on to be handed over to community groups and clubs across Falkirk, while many more would close.

In Grangemouth there were CAT success stories like Beancross and Newlands Community Centre, in Montgomery Street, which was taken over by the community and renamed the Sealock Centre.

However, there were also disappointing outcomes like the aforementioned Bowhouse Community Centre, which has been empty and boarded up for over two years.