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Grindleton Pavilion project
The Grindleton Pavilion will replace the existing building on Grindleton Recreation Ground that comprises two changing rooms.The existing building is no longer fit to use. Currently, Grindleton Football Club is the main user of the changing rooms. The new building will provide changing room facilities, showers, toilets, disabled access, and a Community Room and kitchen. The football club are content that storage facilities will be in a separate building.
The aim is to provide improved facilities for the users of the football pitch and the existing multi-use games area and tennis court, as well as increasing the use of both these facilities by a much wider audience. The Community Room would provide an additional resource, not currently available in Grindleton, and in doing so enhance the quality of life of our rural community. Although the new facility would be used primarily by Grindleton residents, it is our intention to maximise the use of the building and facilities by opening them up to a wider audience, including neighbouring villages and communities in the Ribble Valley
The project is a joint venture between Grindleton Recreation Ground Charity and Grindleton Football Club. Our professional advisers are Jeff Marshall (Architectural Designer and Surveyor) and Joanne Conlon (Quantity Surveyor).
News (20 Jan 12)
Please join us at a VILLAGE MEETING on Wednesday 8th February 2012 in St Ambrose Church at 7.30pm to hear about the final plans, arrangements for the building period and activities that will happen in The Pavilion.
The Pavilion Project has now raised over £330,000. Many thanks to all who have contributed with their time or financially. The plan is for the builders, John Moore and Sons, to take over the site on 27th February 2012 and the proposed completion date is late October 2012. We will then have new changing rooms and a Community Hall!
Matched funding
We have been fortunate to receive support from the Bowland Charitable Trust. The Trust offered to match funds raised locally by a factor of 2:1, up to a maximum of £100,000. The Bowland Trust confirmed that, for pledges made and to be donated annually over a period of 3 to 5 years, they would match the total amount to be donated at the outset, in order to enable the project to begin.
Fund-raising
Fundraising officially began on 18th August 2010. Our current total of funds raised is over £330,000 (20 Jan 12). This includes matched funding from the Bowland Charitable Trust.
The local people of Grindleton and potential users of the facilities have raised about £50,000 from fund-raising events, pledgings and donations. The local support has been outstanding.
This project is part financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas. The project is being delivered through the Northwest Development Agency, with Defra as the managing authority.
The public bodies and charitable trusts that have sponsored the project are shown below. We are very grateful for this generous support.
E.ON UK have donated £2,000 from their Community Fund. We thank E.ON for their contribution.
Clothing and Cook Book
A new Grindleton clothing range has been produced to support the Pavilion Project. The designs emerged from a competition at the Horticultural Show in 2011. Hoodies (£20 in grey or white; sizes S to XXXL), Beehive T-shirts (£10 in loose or tailored style; XS to XXXL) and Children's T-shirts (£8; 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 years) are available from Mandy Brennan (01200 441551).
More details are here.
We also have something for the chefs. The Grindleton Cook Book (£8) and Aprons (£15) are available from Mandy Brennan (01200 441551), Jill Hodges (01200 441147) and Anne Huson (01200 440141).
Events
The principal contact for events is Caroline Waters (01200 440415). Once confirmed, events will be placed in the Village Diary. Events currently planned are:
- 20 Apr 12: Golf Day (Stephen Cherry).
- 2-5 Jun 12: Diamond Jubilee celebrations and Sports Day.
- Aug 12: Sponsored Bike Ride.
- 25 Aug 12: Horticultural Show (Mandy Brennan).
Newsletter
The second Newsletter was circulated to the village in August 2011. We have also compiled a list of FAQs (ver. 2 Sep 11) to address villagers' and potential users' queries.
Latest updates (amended 7 July 2011)
In response to the feedback that we have received over the last couple of months as well as concerns about the escalating cost and size of the project, we have now revised the plans. The new design has everything including the changing rooms and community hall on the ground floor. There is an upstairs space above the changing rooms and kitchen which could be developed in the future but this is not part of the initial build.
A meeting to update villagers and potential users was held on 7 September 2011 in the Parish Room. A Newsletter was delivered to every household in the village week beginning 9th May 2011.
Contacts
Anne Huson (01200 440141) and Caroline Waters (01200 440415) are the principal contacts. Contact details for members of the project team are here (Word).
Pledging funds
The project team asks all villagers and potential users to give very serious consideration to pledging or making a donation. If each household in the village gave £1 a week for 3 years this would raise £45,000 plus gift aid - making £56,250. Please download a Standing Order form (updated 3 March 2011) and a Gift Aid form (updated 23 January 2012); please send the Standing Order to your bank, and the Gift Aid form to Anne Huson at Stonehill House, Grindleton, BB7 4QT.
Buy-A-Brick
We have launched the Buy-A-Brick scheme to raise funds. Every brick costs £10 and every brick counts! Through 2-1 matched funding from the Bowland Charitable Trust, every £10 brick becomes £30 towards our target. Every £200 wall becomes worth £600.
Please contact Anne Huson on 01200 440141 or your own Pavilion representative if you are able to sell a wall.
- If 10 people sell a wall we raise £6,000.
- If 20 people sell a wall we raise £12,000.
- If 40 people volunteer we will have almost reached the target!