Electric Mower For Poulton Cricket Club

Funded on
15 Apr 2024

Purchasing a robot mower will cut emissions and noise pollution. It will free up capital and time to invest in the provision of youth sport while also being better neighbours in our village.

£14,007 Raised of £13,728

95 Backers

102%

Updates

Electric Mower For Poulton Cricket Club hit its fundraising target!2 years ago

Brilliant news, thanks everyone!

2 years ago We've hit our target

Louisa Pettit pledged £2002 years ago

Poulton Cricket Club Fundraising pledged £3172 years ago

83 Donations worth £1,7652 years ago

90 backers!

90 people have backed Electric Mower For Poulton Cricket Club!2 years ago

Whoop, 90 people have pledged since fundraising began!

Anonymous pledged £2502 years ago

Electric Mower For Poulton Cricket Club has reached 70% of its target!2 years ago

GCF Funding Boost!2 years ago

We have heard today that the GCF has backed our project with a grant of £3,250!

80 backers!

80 people have backed Electric Mower For Poulton Cricket Club!2 years ago

Whoop, 80 people have pledged since fundraising began!

http://www.poultoncricketclub.co.uk

We have been a cricket club since 1891 and today have a membership of 200 with nearly a third of these women and girls. We run three Saturday league sides, a Sunday team and a midweek team covering and have a growing women's section, driven by softball interest.

What we are really known for though is our youth section and we now boast almost twenty qualified coaches from support to level 2 who handle our in house coaching for our youth section of approximately 150. Our aim is to offer cost effective coaching to children of all ages and abilities on wonderful facilities and remove as many of the cost barriers to this through effective fundraising rather than high membership fees. This has enabled us to offer good coaching to local children no matter their background within a safe environment. Our Under 13s won the county T20 cup in 2023 and we regularly have youth members in the boys and girls county squads.

Recently our incredibly supportive landlords have agreed terms to a new lease placing us in formal direct control of care of both our pavilion and the playing field which exists for village use. We do this at no charge to the villagers and want as many as possible to get involved in their local club even if they do not play the game.

Our reason to look for external sources of funding has been prompted by spiralling utltilty costs, dwindled cash reserves as a result losing earnings during Covid and also second hand machinery failing us at the same time. We are looking to invest in machinery which will be easier to maintain and produce better results not only for us but also our neighbours. Having an electric mower will mean we don't have stripes in the grass but it also means our neighbours will have far less noise during the summer. The grass will still be cut though just more quietly.

As a registered charity, all funds raised are ploughed straight back into the club's facilities and equipment for the provision of cricket and we have a clear development plan for the club targeting what we need to improve.

Project Owner: Poulton Cricket Club The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.