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To all members of the communities of Parwich, Ballidon, Alsop-en le Dale and Pike Hall:

You will have heard the great news just before Christmas that Parwich has been awarded £500,000 by the Big Lottery Fund towards our new memorial hall. This is the maximum grant that has been awarded in the country. The team were particularly pleased by the comment from the BLF representative that it was one of the most impressive bids that they had received. This means that we really can have our long awaited hall – BUT we need more help.

Read on to find out the current state of play, including all funding details.

Because our community has particular needs such as facilities for under fives, better kitchen facilities and a separate meeting room, and because any building work in the Peak Park is 20% more expensive than anywhere else, we still we still need to raise more money. A Resource Table is printed below.

The total target cost of the new hall is £868,000, so approximately £368,000 is still needed. The funding group are already applying for several grants, which they are fairly confident will succeed, and when added to funds already raised amounts to £699,000. There are other grants currently being drafted whose outcome is less secure. This means that we still need to find £169,000. This can be in cash or kind.

This is where you can come in, to help find money, grants or sponsors from outside the village.

Although the group of people so far involved in the core work of the new hall have lots of ideas where and how to get more money, they cannot pretend that this task is going to be easy. The current financial crisis is going to make this even tougher, so we all need to pull together to pool whatever ideas or contacts we as villages have.

Are you able to help in any of the ways listed below, or do you have any other suggestions or help to offer? And last by no means least, would you be prepared join the funding group to offer your time in even a small way?

• Do you know of any grant or funding organisations that we can ask?
• Are you involved in sport, music, arts, leisure, young people, older people or any club or society that might help?
• Do you know of any wealthy or influential individuals that might help?
• Do you know of anyone that has been involved in building a village hall and might be able to pass on useful contacts?
• Do you know or work for any company that might be able to either donate things or let us have them at cost such as building materials, kitchen equipment, building merchants, timber merchants, haulage companies, plant hire companies, electrical or plumbing suppliers?
• Are you involved in the building business in any way at all and would be prepared to help or advise?
• Last but by no means least, is there any thing that you could do to raise funds?

If you have any suggestions to make then please ring or contact any of the people below.

• Mike Gerard Pearse – 625
• Amanda Johnson – 344
• Jane Harris – 513
• Brian Beasley – 206

Resources.

• Big Lottery Fund – £500,000 – Secured
• Millennium Village Hall Fund – £10,000 – Secured
• Project Parwich – £1,000 – Secured
• In kind: Tarmac Aggregates – £20,000 – Secured
• In kind: Tarmac Building Products – £20,000 – Secured
• In kind: Longcliffe Quarries – £50,000 – Secured
• In kind: Bennetts – £2,000 – Secured
• Private donation: J Harrison – Harrison Ford – £1,000 – Secured
• Sustainable Development Fund – £40,000 – Applied for
• Aggregate Levy Sustainable Fund – £50,000 – Applied for
• DDDC Village Halls Grant – £5,000 – Applied for
• Total – £699,000

Current main draft applications (other smaller funds are also being drafted).

• DD Village Car Park Grant – ??? – Drafting
• Low Carbon Buildings Programme – £30,000 – Drafting
• Garfield Weston Trust – £10,000 – Drafting
• EON Source – £40,000 – Re-applying
• Tudor Trust – £100,000 – Drafting
• Clothworkers Foundation – £10,000 – Drafting
• Rayne Trust – £50,000 – Rejected
• Lankellychase Fund – £50,000 – Rejected
• Peter Harrison Foundation – £30,000 – Rejected