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Pendle Ski Club needs new slope matting published their Delivery Report!6 months ago
Delivered 26 September 2023
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To buy and replace 100 mats on the ski slope at Pendle Ski Club. This will ensure we can continue to provide a high quality ski opportunities to the public.
We want 100 new Skitech Diamond Mats to be used on our main slope on Pendle Hill near Sabden in the Ribble Valley The mats are green in colour to ensure that they blend with the beautiful natural environment of Pendle Hill. This means from a distance the slope is not visible and the wonderful natural environment is preserved. The mats are made from PVB bristles looped around steel wire, then crimped onto sections which are made into lengths and jointed together with stainless steel. These are joined together in 16's to make mats. This is the perfect material to edge into and ski with confidence whatever your ability. The diamond shape of the mats offers a good stable terrain for those who are just starting to learn but also slalom gates can be safely into the matting so we can train all ages to race at every level. We are incredibly proud to be the grass root Club of Dave Ryding, David Corr, Robert Holmes and Charlotte Holmes. We have a team of volunteers ready to fit them.
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Why it's a great idea:
New mating is easier to ski on and means that every skier is able to develop new skills quicker. Boosting everyone's sense of achievement. It means less fitness and strength is required to preform skiing tasks meaning new skiers can fall in love with the sport quicker. The adaptive equipment used by our Disability Snow Sport group can be used most effectively leading to increased confidence. The club funds the training costs of any Pendle Skier wanting to instruct. New mating would make it easier to develop your personal skiing to the standard required to pass the assessments for Snow Sport England. It enables us to host regional and national competitions providing opportunity for high level skiers to compete and revenue for near by local businesses as competitors travel and stay in the area using local bed and breakfasts, hotels, restaurants and cafes. To continue our passionate campaign that skiing is an amazing weekly hobby for everyone not an exclusive holiday.
Steps to get it done:
We offer lessons for total novices through to skiers who compete internationally and ensure all participants are given the same high quality experience. We offer age based and mixed aged lessons so whole families or groups of friends can learn together. Skiing is brilliant for both physical and mental well-being. Skiing at Pendle offers a great opportunity to meet, get to know new people and celebrate each others success in a group setting. While developing and learning new skills at your own pace. Pendle Ski Club has over twenty qualified instructors. We fund training of instructors from the age of 15 upwards and have also supported young people to get their Duke of Edinburgh award. This means we have a great team of volunteer instructors who treat every skier as an individual and adapt numbers to the individuals and conditions. Enjoyment and progression are how we measure success.
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How will the money be spent?Total £37,218
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VolunteerPendle Ski Club is a volunteer run Ski club on the beautiful scenic Pendle Hill. We are run by a committee of volunteers and lessons are all taught be fully qualified volunteer instructors. This means Pendle is much more than a Ski Club but also a place you can gain expereince of leadership, mentoring, negotiation and so much more. Many volunteers use their skiils and expereince to support university and job applications.
We have recently elected our youth committee to support and feedback to the existing commitee.. To provide an additional development opportunity for the amazing young people who bring so much to the club. Their first project has been to mastermind this fundrasing bid.
We run lessons to cater for all ski abilities across our two slopes from total beginners to advanced racers who are competing on a national level. We are incredilby proud to be the grass roots club of Dave Ryding Kitzbuhel World Cup champion and Olympian, David Corr Gold Medalist Junior Special Olympics, Charlotte Holmes Junior Overall Apline Champion and Rob Holmes GB Wolrd Junior Championship competitor. Also Elanor Eves who was recently voted Snow Sport Englands Young Volunteer of the Year.
We run lessons weekly for all levels of Skier from October to May and Race Training all year round. Pendle is a great place to meet new people, make new friends and try something different. All while improving your physical and mental well-being.
Whole families can train and ski together. We have many families where two or three generations are all learning and developing side by side. One of teenage racers recruited his Granddad to the race squad a couple of years ago. This has started a trend where slowly more and more parents and other adults are competing in our monthly Winter Race league. It's fantastic to see not only the youth categories but the also the under 99 category full of competitors.
Having raced on the fun circuit for a couple of years he entered his first national competition this summer and came third in the MAS category.
We are passionate about making sport as accessbile as possible. Just this season we have started a £10 membership for University Students to be able to ski when home in the hoilidays. To try to prvent sport drop out at 18. Also some of our female istructors have volunteered to help SSE research into barriers to female instructors in sport.
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