Roof

An Update on Our Roof…

01/04/2019 by Frances Greenwood Leave a Comment

Work is well underway to make us watertight! Insulation has been installed and struts to support the slates too. This week the slates will be going on and we should be leak-free! Eeep! It looks pretty high up, doesn’t it?!

We’ve had more support from the community for our fundraising too… Donations from local folk have been trickling in to the centre! A big thank you to Alison Wright, the librarian at Penistone Library for donating £35 from their change collection!

If you are a local venue and could have a charity box for us, please get in touch! All the coppers add up, and will help us to work towards making our facilities brilliant for everyone.

The current total of our roof fund is £5059, but we need to raise £6150 in total, so we still have a way to go! Can you help us?

You can donate by clicking the link to the crowd funding page below or get in touch!

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/bigbuildfund

Great News!

24/03/2019 by Frances Greenwood Leave a Comment

After a weekend which was nerve wracking and heartening in equal measure, we’re delighted to say that thanks to our FANTASTIC COMMUNITY, we have enough money to be able to go ahead with the vital roof repairs!

We have been blown away by the generosity of our local supporters!

On Friday evening, we had reached a total of £2664 of the £3150 we needed to allow Parker Maythorn to go ahead and start works…

Since Friday we have received-

£500 from Penistone Round Table (Thank you so much guys- we really appreciate everything you do for our community!)
£100 Anonymous Donor
£1000 from the Mayor’s Fund- thank you Mayor Gillian Millner for choosing us as one of your charities for the year!
£320 more via our crowdfunding page

This brings us to a grand total of £4584!!!

We’re delighted that we’ll be able to ask Parker Maythorn to go ahead with the works tomorrow.

Of course, this doesn’t mean we can rest on our laurels… We are very likely to run into other problems like this whilst renovating our crumbly old building!!

But it does mean we are only £1611 from paying off the balance of the roof entirely- Can you help us get there?!

You can donate via our crowd funding page here-

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/bigbuildfund

An Update on Our Appeal for Help…

21/03/2019 by Frances Greenwood Leave a Comment

… So, a lot has happened since our initial appeal for help to find the £7080 we needed for the emergency repairs to the leaking and dangerous sky-light in our roof!

This amount initially included VAT at 20% (cost of works was £5,900 + 20% VAT= £7080). We have since discovered we should be able to pay VAT at 5% instead, because we are a charity and because it’s an energy saving measure (as we’ll be adding insulation too!) This decreases the amount we need to raise to £6195 (including the 5% VAT).

Our Crowd-Funding Page has already raised £745 (correct as of Thursday!), and this morning we were delighted to receive a fat envelope containing £500 in cash from Penistone’s Trunce Runners! You are an amazing bunch- thank you so much!!

We have looked in to ways to reduce the cost of the the actual work, such as buying cheaper tiles etc, but having taken advice from our project manager and from the roofers, we have decided to go ahead with the second hand welsh slate, which means it won’t look out of place with the rest of the roof. This is still a much cheaper option than replacing the roof-light with another one.

We owe a massive ‘thank you!’ to our roofers Parker Maythorn Ltd. Gerald and Jamie have been absolutely brilliant and on hand with advice and help when we’ve needed it. They have already done several other smaller jobs that they have found when they got onto the roof, for free.

There is bound to be more rain on the way soon, and we can’t expect Parker Maythorn to leave their scaffolding up for a long time when they need to get on with their other work, so we need to decide whether we can afford the repair by Monday. If the scaffolding comes down, then we would need to fund-raise additional money to pay for the scaffolding to go back up again later to complete the works, so we are very keen to come up with the money by then! So we are still desperate for your support!

Can you help us? Every little helps- even a small amount will add up. Please SHARE this post to help us get word out…

If you believe that there should be access to sports facilities in every community, then show your support and help us to get to our goal!