refurbishment

The Hub Cafe holiday & planned refresh…

18/08/2022 by Rosie Leave a Comment

Temporary change to opening patterns:

August 16th,19th & 20th + 23rd, 26th & 27th OPEN for hot and cold drinks, cakes and confectionary ONLY (whilst I swan off on my jolly holidays from Shell! )

Tuesday 30th August 10am – 3pm

Friday 2nd September 10am – 3pm

Saturday 3rd – Thursday 8th September CLOSED for mini refresh of cafe facilities

This is when we need a little help!

Could you give up any time to help with the refresh of the Hub Cafe? Saturday 3rd and / or Sunday 4th Sept.
Please can you get in touch with the leisure centre if you can lend a hand. We really appreciate it ! Thank you in advance ! Call 01226 763949

On Tuesday 13th September – The Hub Cafe Reopens 10am – 3pm !! HURRAH!!
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Retro sports kit call out for the cafe refurb!

04/08/2022 by Rosie Leave a Comment

There is an idea brewing… we need to find as much retro sports kit for our cafe refurb! Shell our catering manager has a great idea… but she needs your help!
I’ve managed to get a retro Dunlop racquet to add to the stash! (see pic)

This is where we need your help! You get to be a part of this too…the fun bits!

We are looking for donations of any:
retro sports equipment,
roller skates,
badminton rackets,
shuttle cocks,
weights to be upcycled,
photos of you ‘back in the day’ playing sports (ideally black and white or the ability to edit into black and white … that you are happy to be put on display),
old leisure books or artwork,
old school radio/cd player/record player or anything else that you think may be of interest.
It has absolutely got to bring the old days of sports, leisure and community in to our new cafe space…

Other items out for request are;
clean and rust free golden syrup and treacle tins of varying sizes,
quirky bottles and jars,
offcuts of ribbon and hessian,
tester pots of paint,
craft embellishments,
small terracotta or brightly coloured pots
any offcuts of succulent or ever green house plants you can spare.

IF you have anything at all – let Shell know! It’s best to email a picture or a description to: shell@penistoneleisurecentre.org.uk

The retro Dunlop racquet that we’ve recently found in the back of a cupboard!!

Work Has Begun On Our New Link Corridor!

11/02/2021 by Frances Greenwood Leave a Comment

Being honest, the ‘ground-hog day’ effect of lockdown has been getting to us a bit this week… We miss normal, we miss the buzz of a busy Leisure Centre and we miss being able to get on with all the things we have planned! We know this is temporary, and is definitely what’s needed to keep everyone safe at the moment, but it does drag, right?!

So this week, we were so pleased, to see our builders break ground on our new link corridor! This signifies progress, and means that when we are finally allowed to re-open, we should have safe, level access to the entire building!

One of the aims of the refurbishment was to make the building accessible to everyone in our community, and this link corridor is one of the last things we need to do, to make the internal layout of the work!

Massive ‘Thank you!’ to Penistone Ward Alliance, and Penistone Area Team for donating the required funding to build the corridor, and to our fantastic builders JSD construction for their hard work!

Many Hands Make Light Work!

10/09/2020 by Frances Greenwood Leave a Comment

We still have work to finish in the new cafe room and the meeting room to get the centre back into full use. Lots of cleaning and painting will be required before the spaces can be used and we need them ready to go for October!

Can you come along and help this weekend? We’ll be working at the centre on Saturday from 10-1 & 2-4pm and Sunday 10-2pm. If you can spare a few hours at any point between those times we’d really appreciate it!

We will be working in teams of 6 people (maximum) per room, and not mixing the groups, and asking volunteers to wear masks and maintain social distancing whilst inside the centre.

If you can come along to help, please let us know you are coming beforehand so that we can organise spacing people out and what jobs you’ll be doing by emailing fran@penistoneleisurecentre.org.uk (please let us know your preference of jobs if you have one- painting/cleaning/shifting things etc) or texting 07545 978793.

An Update on Painting the Sports Hall…

07/07/2020 by Frances Greenwood Leave a Comment

Our brilliant supporters have managed to pull together and raise a fantastic £1447 towards the painting of the Sports Hall.

In order to have this difficult space professionally cleaned and painted we need a total of £6,300, and we need to get it done ASAP whilst we are still closed to the public, to avoid further closures or disruption down the line.

So, to be able to go ahead and complete the works, we have taken the decision to go ahead and apply for a business loan from ‘Key Fund’ (who lend to community groups and social enterprises) which will allow us to complete this area of the refurbishment.

Without the hall being painted, the refurbishment will feel incomplete, so it really is an essential spend!

Work should start on the repainting of the hall very soon! We hope to have it done by the time we re-open (current estimate is the end of the July, subject to Government guidelines).

Meanwhile, our volunteers have had a busy weekend! There has been big progress on painting the newly plastered areas of the building- the new corridor which allows centre users to bypass the main hall is looking clean and smart with its first coat of paint on! And the new false ceilings have gone in to the Kitchen, Waiting Area and Changing Spaces. A huge thanks to our funders EPIP (from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development) and BMBC for the Section 106 money.

The skates are now organised and arranged onto the new custom built shelving in the skate store.

The new back room gym has had a thorough cleaning and the rubber mat flooring has been installed into the area of the gym earmarked for free weights. The rest of the floor has had multiple coats of specialist paint, and movers have been in this morning to install the gym equipment into its new home. This room is the first properly finished area of the centre and we’re incredibly proud of the team that have made it happen!

We think it looks great! What do you think?

In order to be ready to open by the end of the month, the volunteers will be working every weekend Saturday from 10am-1pm or 2-4pm and Sunday 10am-2pm. Are you able to come along and help paint or clean? It’s taken a monumental effort so far and we need many hands to make light work and get us over that finish line! Let us know if you can help…