Monday 14 August 2017

FREEBIE: Small Local Community Centre Map

This is a small map I have been wanting to do for some time, it's a little too small for one of our 'GM's Maps' products so I thought I'd do it anyway and give it away free to readers of the blog.
Enjoy, and feel free to email me at gethsemanegames@gmail.com with any unusual or interesting uses you come up with for it, I'd love to hear about it.



The 20th and 21st century saw a rise in the number of 'Community Centre's'–community or charity run establishments providing activities and social events, information and support for members of the local community. While some community centres are in purpose-built buildings, many others take over buildings that originally had other purposes such as churches or libraries, or are incorporated into civic buildings like town halls.

The one presented here is a small community centre intended to support a village or small town and is based upon the St. Stephens Community Centre in the village where the author lives. This community centre, like so many others, is in a former church which was taken over and repurposed once the congregation dwindled and the Diocese decommissioned it as a church.

Key
1/. Property boundary wall
2/. Steps and ramp to main entrance
3/. Ramp to fire escape
4/. Entrance Vestibule
5/. Kitchenette
6/. Women's WC
7/. Men's WC
8/. Admin Office
9/. Storage
10/. Easy Aces WC
11/. Board/meeting room on what used to be the stage. The door between here and area 12 opens several feet above the floor of area #12
12/. Main hall. There is a door to the board/meeting room which is several feet above the floor of this room. Beneath that is a hatch leading to the understate area which is used for storage and occupies an area beneath area #11
13/. Folding doors which can be used to turn the main hall into two chambers. The doors are sound insulated.
14/. Main Hall
15/. Computer suite
16/. Enclosed yard
17/. Boiler room
18/. Storage