Pendle Ski Club needs new slope matting

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Funded on
26 Mar 2023

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.

£37,219 Raised of £37,218

78 Backers

100%

Our Delivery Report

Funded on 26 March 2023 | Delivered on 26 September 2023

£37,219

RAISED

78

BACKERS

54

DAYS TO FUND

BIGGEST PLEDGE

£18,882

From Lancashire County Council

£10

MOST POPULAR PLEDGE AMOUNT

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230 m² of Play facilities improved

1 Sports facility improved

More about our impact

The local economy

We have already run a level 1 instructor course this season, we are running a Youth Award Course soon and we are in discussions with Snow Sports England to ensure we are considered for any future courses run in the North West. We have a number of Race events booked in over the next twelve months and are in the process of bidding for others. This will see between 80 and 150 skiers depending on the event compete at Pendle. However it brings many more people who spend and support the local economy as family members travel with them.

Volunteering, jobs & education

We have trained a number additional volunteers in how to safely remove and fit mats. We have run a Level 1 Ski instructors course which will provide additional volunteers to the club. But will also provide those who attended with a nationally recognized qualification and the opportunity to develop a lot of transferable skills. We are running a Youth Award Course later in the year which is an opportunity for young people aged 14 to 16. This will provide young people with the opportunity to instruct under supervision and gain amazing skills and experience to help them in the future when they enter the workplace. We already have ten schools booked in for this season and looking forward to taking more bookings.

Arts, culture & heritage

Pendle Ski Club is a wonderful welcoming environment in the beautiful Lancashire countryside. The ideal space for anyone to enjoy.

Activity, health and leisure

The mats will be used by hundreds of local residents over a number of years. The new mats make Skiing easier and more enjoyable. Over the next six months over 500 members, school children, local residents and competitive skiers will ski over the new mats. Skiing is a wonderful sport and perfect to improve health and wellbeing. Being outside in the fresh air surrounded by the rolling hills is the perfect way to improve fitness and your mental wellbeing.

https://www.pendleskiclub.org/

Pendle 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.

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