The idea
Saughall colts junior football club are building a clubhouse with a community room space, changing rooms, cafe facilities and fully inclusive bathrooms and shared spaces. The club is governed by a charity and it has just short of 600 players spanning an age range of 5-78 years old. The clubs players are involved in junior football, adult football, veterans football and walking football. The clubhouse will be open for use to any member of the community and the public.
The clubhouse will be completely new build and will replace a current antiquated container structure. It will be provided with assistance from the football foundation who have committed a significant funding grant to the charity.
The clubhouse will be built to be completely net zero installing a panel solar roofing system and will be fully sustainable off grid. It will sit in beautiful playing fields that also benefit from two newly planted woodland areas providing walking and gardening opportunities for the public.
What we'll deliver
- A brand new net zero clubhouse
- A brand new cafe
- A new community space and meeting room
- Facilities for public of all ages inc toilets and showers
- One of the first grassroots clubs operating at net zero
Why it's a great idea
The benefits to the project are all about community, sustainability and inclusion. The clubhouse will be a place for everyone; young parents feeding babies, girls and boys players making use of facilities, our adults and vets enjoy warm clean, modern training facilities, our pensioners playing walking football will have a warm space to congregate, our mental wellness footballers will have a space to meet, chat and feel less isolated, our pan-ability football players will have space to rest and space for carers, our local community groups will have space to meet and achieve their goals and local youth and uniformed groups can visit and socialise. The pavilion will also save a significant amount of emissions and fossil fuel usage replacing the current containers which use gas with a fully self sustainable solar roof and electricity system. We also expect that Saughall would become one of the first net zero grassroots clubs in the country which is a coup for Chester and surrounding areas.
Steps to get it done
- Permissions from landlord
- Grant secured from FF
- VAT exemption certification agreed
- Outline planning consents agreed
- Fundraise for club contribution
- Commence site clearance
- Commence build execution
