Monmouthshire County Council have terminated the tenancy to the Empowerment Oasis with notice to vacate Tudor St by January 2027 following a set of conditions that the current Trustees and management have not met as outlined in a report issued this month.

Monmouthshire County Council report ​

Agenda and minutes from scrutiny meeting

Whilst we are in agreement that for the reasons in the report this particular charity group needed to go, there is uncertainty what will happen next. We have set up this petition to show that MCC needs to run a proper service in that building to support disabled people. 

MCC is planning to put the building out to tender, but we must make clear that it has a duty to run a proper service for disabled people within that building. Tudor Street Day Centre is the only accessible building in Abergavenny to provide the best service for adults with learning difficulties, mental health struggles and severe disabilities. Services for these people have been stripped to the bone by successive administrations both local and national. A service should be run and funded properly by MCC. 

Adult Services in Health and Social Care are not providing enough support to cater for adults with learning / physical disabilities, mental health struggles, and/or severe disabilities. All of us who have started this petition know people whom the local area is just not accessible enough. We are greatly concerned that from our conversations with MCC, it seems to be only looking at this building primarily from a leasing point of view and is not properly seeing the concerns of cutting a Health and Social Care service.  We feel that MCC's attitude is a major part of what caused the charity group to fail in the first place. 

Please sign if you agree. We need to show MCC how important it is that they ring fence this building for the benefit of the most vulnerable people in our community.