Are there any potential funders who fund the redecoration and design of existing facilities? A number of our meeting rooms and cyber cafe area is looking in need of redecoration to freshen it up. Is there anyone you know of who would consider this?

Can you suggest any funding streams? My position as Project Co-ordinator is funded until March 2009, this post was part funded by our local council, but this will disolve in April 2009 with a new single unitary authority.

We are a completely voluntary led group in a community centre which was an old school, we have very old computer equipment, which is not suitable for our needs, we have become a uk online centre but require funding for a whole new set up i.e computers networking printers ect. We have regular users of the centre who are very keen to learn computers in a relaxed and friendly environment and at their own pace. We live in one of the most deprived areas in the country (which can be verified by our postcode) Can anybody help?

Our village has one shop/post office. Some weeks ago there was a robbery at the shop. Following this the owner closed the shop and the post office. However it subsequently came to light that the the owner had cancelled her Post Office contract(which was not one designated for closure) about two weeks previously. This was done without any consultation with the village and without informing the Parish Council. The owner's husband is a member of the Parish Council and, despite the obvious conflict of interest, continues to participate in the council discussions on the grounds that "the shop is now closed therefore no conflict exists". The discussions have become very hostile with a small cabal of their friends determined to block any attempt to explore options for re-opening the shop which is now on the market for sale. However it is clear that they would prefer to sell it for a higher price as a home rather than a business. I understand that under current legislation they cannot change use for a period of 12 months. There is a significant group in the village who would like to find a more constructive way forward. My question is around the legal rights and wrongs of this situation, and whether there are any rural support mechanisms which might allow / support some sort of consortium approach to buying the shop and re-opening both the shop and the Post Office. Clearly this has a profoundly negative effect on the village community.

Our village shop is closing after 30 years and a small group of us are wondering if we can run it ourselves. What would we need to do?

As part of our MI returns we need to log how many individual users access one of our outreach PC's. Is there a programme available that will log a users postcode ie they need to enter a postcode before they can use the PC? Any help would be greatly appreciated!