Newsletter – March 2019

Spring is well and truly in the air, so it’s a time to get out and enjoy more outdoor activities. It’s been great to see more and more people coming to the Fitness with Friends (10.30am on Saturday morning) and the Rugby Netball (Thursday evening 6.30pm). Both events take place on Southward Field and thanks again to Mike Campbell and Rupert Bound who organise this every week. They always welcome new people (of all levels of fitness) to come along and join in or just watch. 

Funding

We are very grateful for more donations from people in the village including the Aldbourne Band. We are also excited to announce that we have been awarded £3,500 from Marlborough Area Board to go towards architects and design fees. This is a great boost and very exciting because now, we nearly have sufficient funds to be able to engage the architect we’ve chosen to produce drawings for consultation and designs that will eventually form our planning application. 

We’ll be involved in lots more funding events very soon, and one way you can help now is to be involved in the Scouts monthly Big New Hut 100 Club Draw. They have a couple of spare numbers so do contact Robin Morris at rozzamozza@gmail.com to find out more. This is a picture of Gary Salmon and his Big Blue machine at the last draw.

We’re also pleased to say that thanks to some generous Awards for All funding we will be engaging someone locally to gather vital information from the community to help us design a facility that truly meets the needs of the village when it comes to sport and recreation. 

Upcoming Events

We have a busy year of events coming up on Palmers Field, with the Doggy Day, Carnival Sports Day and Bonfire Night already in the diary. We are also looking forward to being at various events this year to answer people’s questions and spread the word. So look out for our banner and say hello to us at the Village Fete, Proms on the Green and the first Village Green Community Market on the 28th of April.

Palmers Field Update

Although we’re doing everything we can, we still haven’t signed the lease for Palmers Field with Aldbourne Parish Council. The final wording of the lease is still been worked on by solicitors working on behalf of ARC and the Parish Council and although the delay is frustrating, we’re confident we’ll keep making progress. Needless to say we’ll let you know as soon as we have any more news. 

Behind the Scenes

As always we’ve been very busy doing as much as we can in anticipation of the lease being signed. We have engaged an architect who’s all ready to commence drawing some initial designs for us to consider, when we have the lease agreed with the Parish Council

Stay in Touch

This is certainly looking to be a very exciting year for ARC, so we look forward to keeping you up to date at every stage of our progress. Again, we’d like to thank to all our supporters for all their continued commitment; we really appreciate it. As always if you have any questions or suggestions, please do get in contact with us at:

info@ARC-Aldbourne.org.uk 

Also, please do let us know if there is anyone else who would like to receive this newsletter every month, and don’t forget we are active on social media, so please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by clicking on the links below. 

Many thanks 


Malcolm Pryce,  Chairman, Aldbourne Recreation Centre