Kirk Balk Community College is a dramatic and bold building that symbolises the ambitious programme of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council to provide new learning opportunities for the whole community. AHMM has embraced this ambition to create an educational environment that is both welcoming and inspiring. Kirk Balk Community College represents a new idea of how architecture can help deliver a social agenda of joined-up services within one place for councils that need to get the most from decreasing budgets and resources.