You may or may not be aware that following the merger of Northowram Fields CC and Northowram Junior Football Club, jointly known as Northowram Community Sports & Activity Club, or NCSAC for short, a project team has been working hard in order to move forward with plans for a joint new clubhouse on the site of the old cricket club pavilion.

We have made huge strides forward and have raised a huge amount of money already to cover costs for planning approval, building regs etc. Planning was granted some time ago and since then we have been busy working with Calderdale council and others to obtain funding for the build costs of £475,000, not an easy task! However, recently we received some fantastic news that Sport England were keen to back our project from their prestigious “Sustainable Facilities Fund” for the amount of £175,000, we are 1 of only 7 projects in the UK who have received a backing offer from this fund. In order to use this offer we need to have spent the funds by 31st of March 2010, we believe it is possible to achieve our goal within this timescale but need everyone’s help, however large or small to deliver what will be a fantastic facility for our club, community, sport in our village and kids.

With support from the Football Foundation and the English Cricket Board, we believe there is still an amount to raise or obtain through “donations/work in kind” of approximately £50k, it sounds a lot but we’ve already raised an amount well in excess of £200k.

Our request to all members is very simple, CAN YOU HELP? If you can help in any way at all please contact a member of the project team with an expression of interest, they are Paul Winfield, Ann Greenwood, Gary Byrnes, Mark Rich, Steve Hird & Chris Thompson, or simply just email chris@hillsideservices.co.uk . Anyone who can donate time, money, services, materials, labour would be more than welcome to get involved.

Above is a picture of what our clubhouse will look like once finished (click on the image to enlarge), imagine watching England win the World Cup in South Africa in the comfort of your new clubhouse!

'BUY A BRICK' CAMPAIGN

Your name and generosity will go down in history. Support the Northowram Community Sport and Activity Club by donating to the Clubhouse Building Fund. “Buy a Brick” and your name, business name or family’s name will be forever engraved into a dedicated Sponsorship wall within the new Clubhouse.

Write your name, family or business name, or a name in memory of a loved one onto a wall in Northowram Community Sport and Activity Club where it will be permanently preserved. Your contribution will be permanently honoured on the dedicated sponsorship wall.

All donations are welcome and you will be supporting the volunteers now and for many years to come.

Encourage family members, work colleagues and friends to consider this great opportunity that will benefit the whole community.

Give a one-off £10.00 Individual donation, £25.00 Family donation or £50.00 Business donation today.

Click on the club documents link on the home page now to download a donation form.

If you require any more details please contact Club Development Officer Mr Chris Thompson on 07908 252938

Thanks on behalf of the NCSAC project team.