A COMMUNITY facility, dedicated to helping families in need, has been handed an eleventh-hour lifeline.

The Salisbury NCH family centre, on Bemerton Heath, was threatened with closure at the end of this month if new premises were not found.

Now the charity, which operates a range of facilities, including summer play schemes, parenting classes and the Dash group for domestic violence victims, is relocating to the old St Martin's Infant School site, in St Martin's Church Street.

The organisation, which will move to its new site on April 1, will be known as the NCH Wessex family centre. It was previously run out of a portable building in Pinewood Way.

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