Leverstock Green Cricket Club
CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT UPDATE
GOOD NEWS - AND VERY GOOD NEWS!
Click HERE to download a pdf containing the most up-to-date news regards the clubhouse refurbishment.
PLEASE, if you have not already done so, give what you can afford, ASAP by:-
1. Bank Transfer – please remit your donation in favour of ’LGCC’ to Barclays Bank, Sort Code 20 39 07 Account Number 40680575 by single donation or monthly Standing Order (which can be cancelled at any time). Please use your name as a reference. OR
2. Send a cheque made out to ‘LGCC’ to Tony Williams, LGCC Secretary, 19 Lombardy Close, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, HP2 4NG.
Previous update - dated February 13, 2014:
Leverstock Green Cricket Club
CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT UPDATE
- PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Dear Member/Vice President,
The Capital Project continues to progress very positively.
In spite of the atrocious weather, our building contractor is on schedule and will be finished by April.
Progress to date is:-
· the internal/external walls of the extension have been built
· the current structure has been reinforced by new, load-bearing, structural beams
· three exterior walls have been replaced and the wood cladding is being replaced
· the new ladies cloakroom is nearing completion
· the walls of the new gents/disabled toilets, kitchen and scorers’ area have been erected
· the new pitched roof is also being put up
New, flat, high-level ceilings have been specified for the extension and similar new ceilings have been put up in the re-modelled part of the Clubhouse i.e. in the new toilets, kitchen and scorers’ area. The latter has been done at extra cost.
The Development Committee is currently considering whether it is financially viable to replace the ceiling in the Bar/Social area. This would be at further extra cost but would make a huge difference to the look and sight lines in this area, as the internal pillars would be removed. We shall also need to resurface the car park, which is another sum of money that has to be factored into the projected final costs.
Currently, we are just about covering our costs but we have had to take out two interest-free loans (£50,000 from ECB and £20,000 from the Brewery) to do this. We have raised about £100,000 from savings, grants, donations and fundraising. Within the £100,000, £20,000 has been raised from the Appeal donations and fundraising.
In order to make it financially viable to instruct the contractor to put up new ceilings in the Bar/Social area and also cover the cost of any further ‘extras’, such as the car park, we would have to raise at least another £15,000. Obviously, if we leave this to another year, the cost will rise and we would have to face renewed disruption.
We are extremely grateful to those members and vice presidents who have donated already what they can afford. It is vital that others, who can afford to donate something, will do so as soon as possible, so that the work can be finished properly during the contract period. All donations of £100 and above will be commemorated on a Donors’ Plaque, which will be put up in the Clubhouse, following the completion of the Project.
PLEASE, if you have not already done so, give what you can afford, ASAP by:-
1. Bank Transfer – please remit your donation in favour of ’LGCC’ to Barclays Bank, Sort Code 20 39 07 Account Number 40680575 by single donation or monthly Standing Order (which can be cancelled at any time). Please use your name as a reference. OR
2. Send a cheque made out to ‘LGCC’ to Tony Williams, LGCC Secretary, 19 Lombardy Close, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, HP2 4NG.
Thank you very much.
Yours sincerely,
Brian
Brian Coulshed
(on behalf of Leverstock Green Cricket Club Development Committee)
Previous update - dated January 19, 2014:
Leverstock Green Cricket Club
CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT UPDATE
The total amount of money raised by Leverstock Green CC members towards the Clubhouse Development project - as at January 19, 2014 - was over £15,000.
Regular fund-raising update figures, and clubhouse development works schedule updates, are available to view on the noticeboards and around the walls inside the clubhouse.
Original message from summer 2013:
Leverstock Green Cricket Club
CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT UPDATE
FIRST BULLETIN
Since we last reported to the Membership at the AGM,
progress has been made:
· Our Architect, Dave Beynon has drawn up Plans,
which have now been approved by the ECB. These Plans are fundamentally the same
as have been displayed at the AGM, Players’ Evening and the Vice Presidents’
Meeting.
· We are now having preliminary discussions with
the Planning Department at Dacorum Borough Council (DBC) prior to making a formal
Planning Application [we shall be in contact with our neighbours and the
Leverstock Green Village Association (LGVA) before we apply].
· The draft plans are available for members to
view.
· Currently, we are trying to engage the services
of a Structural Engineer so that detailed engineering drawings can be
completed. Following this, we shall go out to tender.
· It is estimated that the whole Project will cost
c£160,000.
· If we are not able to raise this amount this
year, then we shall have to consider delivering the Project in two Phases ie:
Phase 1 2013-2014: Build the 60 square metre extension on the right hand side
(as you look at the Clubhouse) to create 2 new changing rooms, with integral
showers and toilets, an Officials’ changing room, and a disabled toilet. And then Phase 2 2014-2015: Refurbishment within
the current Clubhouse footprint producing a new kitchen, a larger social area,
new ladies and gents toilets and a new scorers’ area and scoreboard.
· Prior to the extension being built, a new low
angle, pitched roof will be constructed which will be supported by loadbearing
structures outside the current walls of the Clubhouse.
· The
raising of the necessary funds is crucial to being able to deliver the Project.
We are applying to a number of grant awarding organisations and we are seeking
increased sponsorship of the Club and we
do need the support of our members. We are inviting donations (large and
not as large), as well as money raised from events and legacies for our future.
· Please be as generous as you can be and speak
to : Brian Coulshed Tel: 01442 262431 or briancoulshed@hotmail.co.uk or Steve Wright Tel: 01442 211677 or steve.wright@talk21.com
· WE HAVE A WONDERFUL CLUB AND OUR AIM IS TO
MAINTAIN ITS WARM, WELCOMING FAMILY ATMOSPHERE AND TO IMPROVE ITS FACILITIES SO
THAT IT WILL CONTINUE TO FLOURISH FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
Best wishes to you
all from Brian Coulshed, Steve Wright, Tony Williams, Mike Wood, Kevin Seggery,
Tony Humphrey and Dave Beynon (Club Development Committee).