Artificial Surfaces
One piece of advice I would give other clubs looking to source funds is to make sure you do your homework and ensure your project fits the criteria set by the funding organisation
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Tennis court after fence upgrade and floodlight installation
New cricket practice facility
to have two members of the tennis committee - myself and Paul Murray - who had both recently retired from positions involving the management of major capital projects - who had the time to dedicate to the project without the nine-to-five getting in the way. Equally important, we had Lee Morgan, a professional contract manager and Mike Turner, then Chairman of the Cricket Club, who lent their excellent practical skills to help steer the project in the right direction.”
The funding ‘jigsaw puzzle’
With briefs drawn up for the various elements of the project, the next stage was to identify and navigate the available funding streams to raise capital. Here, however, the ‘joined-up’ approach meant that applications had to be handled carefully, as David explains. “Securing funding was perhaps the biggest
challenge of the project, due mainly to the in-depth application procedures and strict criteria set by many of the bodies we approached. For example, the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB), which we earmarked to support the non-turf cricket practice nets, will only fund cricket-specific projects, so we had to treat this as a completely separate application. We were successful but, due to the way in which funds were allocated, work on the facility had to be finished by the end of 2013 so, although we would have preferred to start work on the MUGA element first, the cricket nets had to take priority and we juggled the schedule accordingly.” Thanks to a concerted team effort, over 60% of the overall project budget was secured from funding streams. Alongside the ECB’s support of the cricket side of the project through the England & Wales Cricket Trust, contributors to the wider scheme
included WREN (via the FCC Environment to the Landfill Communities Fund), the Aylesbury Vale Community Chest and Great Brickhill Parish Council; with the clubs’ combined fundraising efforts also contributing significantly to the overall cost. David says; “It was great to be able to tap
into so many different funding streams and we are hugely grateful to the various bodies that supported the project. I think one of the reasons that we were so successful is that Lee, Paul and I had the time to commit to doing our research thoroughly and, whilst the process of applying can be rather laborious, it paid dividends. One piece of advice I would give other clubs looking to source funds is to make sure you do your homework and ensure your project fits the criteria set by the funding organisation - read the small print thoroughly to ensure you don’t waste effort applying for streams you simply aren’t eligible for.”
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