FEARS are growing over the future of a crucial community hub providing a focal point for children, under-privileged families and worshippers.

Groups who use the New Langley Community Hub face eviction after a plan to regenerate the land it sits on will include the building's demolition.

Officers from Slough Borough Council are looking for an alternative site, but founders of the hub Glynys Higgins and Daphne Wright, who built up the hall six years ago, are concerned.

Formerly known as the Merrymakers Hall, the hub is attached to the Merrymakers Pub, which the council acquired the leasehold for in 2012 and now wants to build a mixed-use regeneration project on the site.

Mrs Higgins, 69, said: “I do understand the building’s got to go eventually, but the council’s not keeping us informed and we don’t know when we face being evicted or where we’ll go.”

The two ladies, along with the help of volunteers, worked hard to bring the venue up-to-scratch, putting in new, double-glazed windows, boiler, lighting, a kitchen and redecorating the place.

Mrs Higgins said: “Our hard work hasn’t been taken into account at all. It would be nice to be included in what’s going on.”

The hall is used for Slough foodbank distribution, bingo, youth groups, and functions, as well as a place to provide exam tutoring workshops, art workshops, Sunday school and a prayer group.

Mrs Higgins added: “The lonely people that come out will be stuck back in their homes again. The kids don’t get into trouble because they’ve got somewhere to go.

“People come from all over Langley and Colnbrook. The list just goes on, it’s an awful situation.”

Mrs Higgins explained that the temporary space they have been offered would not be big enough to accommodate all the services they currently provide or all of the equipment they use.

A spokeswoman from the council said the redevelopment of the site had received the backing of residents through consultation and would include "flexible space for community use".

She said officers had been in contact with hub leaders to look into finding a temporary home to operate out of. An updated report will be discussed at cabinet in October.