£23,000 Grant awarded to SMGC
After a great deal of work, we are delighted to announce that the club is to benefit from a grant of £23,000 towards improving our course entrance, practice facilities and various fencing projects.
The money has been awarded from Stanley Area Action Partnership, and is the result of 18 months work by James Handy and Guy Carr. We wish to express our thanks to the Partnership for their help in making the application a success.
The areas the money will be spent are as follows: -
1. Install Hard standing area into the practice area for 12 x 3m x 4m bays.
2. Purchase Ball Collecting equipment, and storage facilities.
3. Install practice bays, dividers, nets and targets onto field.
4. Install a fence on the entrance to the practice area (required by EGU for Mcgregor Trophy).
5. Install new fence between old pro shop and oil tank area on entrance to Car Park.
6. Install new signs at Course Entrance
7. Installation of Brown Tourist Signs so visitors can find us!!!
8. Appoint a specialist publicity officer to gain as much exposure for the course and area as possible.
All of the above items are as a direct consequence of our awarding of the Mcgregor Trophy. We will shortly be asking for people who wish to volunteer for the event running from 10th July – 14th July 2011.
We will require people to act as marshals’, help with parking, course rangers and spotters etc.. Event clothing will be provided to all volunteers.
If you think you could help with any of the above, leave a note with the secretary, and when the time gets near we will contact you.
Installation of these items will begin in the near future, we are also looking into other funding areas, to further improve practice facilities, and will report in due course.
