SUPPORTERS of Camborne Community Centre and Donald Thomas Centre have vowed to fight to save the debt-ridden facilities.
More than 200 people packed an emergency meeting at the parish church last night to elect a new board of trustees and discuss the future after the entire board and the manager resigned last month.
Residents were told urgent action was needed to deal with wages, accounts, building grants and debts.
The Reverend Mike Firbank said: "Things are not going to be easy but not as bad as we thought.
"There are debts, worth about £16,000, and possibly a few more but there's also some funding in the reserves account and now we need a permission from the Charity Commission to use it.
"Jean Charman (Camborne mayor) and I are going to lead the management committee and over the next few weeks we are going to split jobs between the new members. But we are still trying to get the outgoing trustees to sign off all the accounts because we need the authority to pay staff and write cheques."
A number of users voiced concerns about the situation including Janet Holman, of Camborne Spiritualist Church, who said: "We identified a problem a few years ago and brought it to the attention of the administrators.
"Most suggestions we put forward were ignored
completely."
The trustees, until the December AGM, are chairman Mr Firbank, vice-chairman Ms Charman, treasurer Robert Webber, vice-treasurer Ian Thompson, secretary Karen Hill, Valerie Dalley, Colin Grose, David Everett, Philip McKeswick, Gareth Clarke, Robert Smith, Paul Holmes, Alan Butterfield and John Gumm.
