Tetbury Bowls - Toilet & Club Extension

Funded on
14 Sep 2021

We want to provide an accessible toilet, connect the clubhouse to the changing rooms and provide indoor viewing. We could then welcome a more inclusive membership and host county matches.

£20,994 Raised of £19,691

58 Backers

106%

Updates

Tetbury Bowls - Toilet & Club Extension published their Delivery Report!3 years ago

Anonymous pledged £4215 years ago

105% achieved5 years ago

We are today funded to 105% with the crowdfunding closing next Thursday, 30 September. On this day we will be collecting via GoCardless the direct debit pledges from our supporters. Thank you all. Work on phase 2 will commence on Monday 4 October 2021.

97 Donations worth £5,0125 years ago

We've done it!5 years ago

With 17 days to go we have hit our Spacehive crowdfunding target. In fact we have exceeded the target with 17 days to go and are in the great position to have an excess to our target. Well done and many thanks to all our supporters. The work will begin on phase 2 on 27 September and we should look forward to wonderful improved facilities in 2022.

Tetbury Bowls - Toilet & Club Extension hit its fundraising target!5 years ago

Brilliant news, thanks everyone!

Tetbury Bowls Club pledged £2,5005 years ago

5 years ago We've hit our target

Tetbury Bowls - Toilet & Club Extension has reached 90% of its target!5 years ago

John Cary pledged £2,5005 years ago

http://www.tetburybowlsclub.co.uk

Tetbury Bowls Club was formed on 2 December 1908 and commenced playing as a bowls club in May 1910. The first match was away to Cirencester and in the first season had 45 playing members.

The Club is affiliated with the Gloucestershire Bowling Association and also Bowls England.

In 1953 the Club moved to its present location and originally had 4 rinks. In later expanded to the current 6 rinks.

The season runs from April through to September and competes in ladies and mens Gloucestershite leagues. We also play inter-club senior and friendly matches with teams around the county.

There are many club competitions that culminate in a dinner and prizegiving during October.

During the off season we hold social functions to help with fundrasing and keeping in touch with the members.

At the end of the 2018 season plans were formalised and a management plan agreed upon. This was in two parts.

"Upgrade the facilties" and "Focus on the People".

Upgrade the facilities. The Club felt that not only did the facilities need upgarding but that it was essential to improve accessibility. We employed a local architect who produced plans to include new changing rooms, an extended Clubroom and an accessible toilet for members and visiors.

Planning permission was gained in August 2019 and the membership demolished the old changing rooms and built the new, now completed, changing rooms. Due to the very high costs of having a contractor undertake the project (£60,834) the membership undertook the majority of the works. Some specialist trades were used and the project was completed for £34,000.

The cost of phase 1 was met from fundraising and interest free loans from the membership.

Phase 2 is already underway and the membership have completed the groundworks for the Clubroom extension.

Focus on the People.

A Development Committee was formed to progress this part of our future. The Sport England Club Matters tools were used to review and analyse how the club operates and help to critically assess how we perform in the areas of Club People, Club Marketing, Club Finance and Club Management.

We also created Mission and Vision statements that can be viewed at www.tetburybowlsclub.co.uk

This season we have raised over £1000 towards the starting up of a Junior Bowls Section and we have set a target of attracting upto 16 juniors= members.

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