This is what Jon is hoping to do at Ditchingham Sports Centre with all your help…
The Bungay & District Sports Association is one of the 22 community groups shortlisted in the Big EDP Lottery Fund £250,000 give away.
The B&DSA have applied for £20,840 in order to renovate our old brick changing rooms and install an artificial cricket pitch.
We would like to renovate our old dilapidated changing rooms that were built in the 1980s so that they can be used for the massive increase in youth and ladies sport, including boxing that has happened at the B&DSA and install an artificial cricket pitch to enable more youth matches and practice sessions to take place.
The brick shell and tile roof of the changing rooms are perfectly sound but they were built with one communal shower area. The only toilet facility is a mens’ urinal which is obviously not suitable either for ladies sport or mixed-sex youth sport, with girls able to play mixed-sex football and cricket up to Under 13s now. Current changing room design would insist on separate shower areas for each team in addition to a toilet in each changing room.
Additionally the changing rooms were built with minimal insulation making them expensive to heat and uncomfortably hot in the summer. The lack of investment in insulation also means maintaining a suitable water supply to the showers in freezing conditions extremely difficult. We would install suitable insulation in the ceilings and line the walls with insulated boards to reduce heat loss on a cold day.
The installation of a quality artificial cricket pitch would increase the number of youth matches played, the practice sessions we could run and add an additional development team on a Sunday. We have a small cricket square and are currently having to multi-use the cricket strips on the square.
The Big EDP Lottery Fund have whittled down the 99 applications to just 22 and the readers of the Eastern Daily Press will soon be given the opportunity to vote for which group they would like to see receive the cash applied for.
Jon Fuller, Chairman of the Sports Association said: This is a really good opportunity for us, after many years, to finally provide decent changing rooms for our young football teams, our lady footballers and all our cricket teams. If we can also get enough cash to install an artificial cricket pitch it will do wonders for our youth coaching sessions that have really started to produce some very good young prospects. I just hope that every one locally will get behind our bid and vote for a much needed project to help our young kids."
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APPARENTLY THE EDP HAS DECIDED THAT YOU HAVE TO SEND THE VOTE FROM THE ACTUAL PAPER AND NOT ONE PRINTED OFF… SORRY IF YOU HAVE WASTED PAPER, BUT HOPEFULLY YOU WILL HAVE DONE WHAT MOST OF US HAVE AND BOUGHT THE PAPER, IF NOT PLEASE GO AND GET ONE AND FILL IN THE FORM THANK YOU FROM JON…
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