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enable location of plant and 68 PV panels generating 20kwp giving an estimated annual yield to the club of 17,442 kwh/y. Low energy technologies were employed throughout the facility such as LED lighting with PIR controls where possible. The building is also highly insulated to give a fabric first approach. Inside, the ground floor provides six full sized
changing rooms, two official changing rooms with showers, a medical room, office, rehab gym, cellar, toilets, store and a 80-cover function room. At first floor there is a 280-cover function room with commercial kitchen, a club room/meeting room, club shop and toilet facilities. A covered terrace runs the length of the building providing the perfect vantage point for spectators. The project took 16 months to complete;
including transforming an agricultural field into playing surfaces with some delays caused by the wet winter and hot summer.
sustainable future It was always intended that Barnard Fields be used as much by the community as by the rugby club. Open seven days a week from 7am to 9pm, the main bar and function room offers hot food and drinks including a popular Sunday lunch. Live TV shows a wide range of sporting events. Wymondham Archers are now based at the
facility, on a purpose built area, offering courses, corporate games and a social league in the summer. Local schools also use the facilities and pitches and a Saturday morning Parkrun is
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due to get underway at the site imminently. Leicester Tigers will also use Barnard Fields
as the Norfolk base for the Premiership side’s Developing Player Programme where the county’s most talented youth players will be coached to potentially become professionals and both county and regional representative games have been earmarked for the new facility. The investment in both the pitches and
clubhouse at the new site offer some of the best playing facilities in the eastern region and beyond. Wymondham Rugby Club now has facilities to match its ambitions helping it to
attract new players. In fact, it has already added a second ladies team as well as an U13 and U15 girls team since moving to its new home in October. Barnard Fields provide facilities that can be
used by the whole community, while giving the club the ability to generate the commercial income needed to sustain the facility and a platform for continued growth both on and off the pitch.
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