A COMMUNITY hub made 'a positive out of a negative' by aiding vulnerable families throughout the pandemic.
Schneider Road Community Hub in Ormsgill, also known as the hub with a heart, was taken over by Tracy Matthews in November 2019, providing a base for her popular toddler group.
What she hadn't expected was that just months later the world would go into lockdown as the coronavirus ran rampant, forcing big changes at the hub.
Miss Matthews, who also works at St Pius X Catholic Primary School and Duttons on Schneider Road, said: "I had just taken over the hub in the November and by the March everything that we had done had to close.