Having successfully utilised the Awards for All Funding last year the Management Committee have now secured substantial funding from the Big Lottery and have this money available to help further develop the Community Pretious Sports Hall in Northiam.
The Sports Hall Management Committee have developed a proposal for utilising this funding and work is now underway to help further realise the potential of the Pretious Sports Hall and increase the awareness of the facilities to a wider community. The proposal also involves improving / developing new ‘Sports Hall officer’ roles and responsibilities and providing a better hub within the sports hall office for contacts and information as well as generally improving the service we provide to existing and potential users. More information will be made available at the Annual General Meeting which will be held early in 2012 (date to be announced soon).
An important part of this new plan is that there will be a new sports hall website – this is now just about developed and will hopefully be live at the end of the year. Amongst other things on the website there will be a general calendar with links to each of the current clubs where details will be posted about the club activities, times, prices etc. There will hopefully be lots of photo’s as well.
The sports hall office is also being improved so it can be the hub for club information and the point of contact for enquiries which will be handled by the new Sports Hall Officers. It has already been decorated and a telephone line and internet connection is now established. Equipment has been ordered and the office will be equipped with the following:
- Sports Hall officer desk with phone, answer phone, pc/internet connection, printer
- New notice boards
- White board
- Lockers
- Water boiler