Bodham Playing FieldCommittee Fred Cable - Chair [588887], The Playing Field Committee would like to thank the Parish Council for their continued support. For details please contact Mel Clarke Secretary, Bodham Playing Field Committee, Highlands,
Cromer Road Holt, Norfolk, NR25 6QG Please donate to our Give as you Live account. Click here or use the QR code below.
For more information on how you can help us through Give as you Live, please click here. Tesco Stronger Starts We have another month to go in the Tesco Stronger starts campaign, so
if you shop in Tesco, Sheringham or Tesco Express, Mundesley/Cromer,
please put your blue tokens into our box. This finishes on 30th June. Latest additions to our fundraising efforts include new signs for the Car Boots, thanks to many volunteers.
The Car Boots
so far (as at 30th June) have raised nearly £500 despite three of them
being poorly attended due to bad weather. All we need now is for stall holders to come along and help us build what could be a fantastic event. We certainly have the facilities and we are very friendly. We have also acquired a tractor tyre, which we know that the children are playing with - this is a simple item but encourages imagination through play. Coming soon will be three shelters that will provide cover for people watching the football, they will also give the older teenagers a place to meet up, chat and socialise.
It's the little things that can make such a difference. A great deal of work has been completed over on the field and more is on the pipeline. We are please to say that thanks to local businesses and their donations of products, the Rocking Horse will soon be reinstated. Sadly it will no longer rock as it does not comply to modern standards, but it will still be there as a nod to the past and people will be able to climb and sit on it for years to come. Products have been donated by Homebase, Cromer and MKM Building Supplies, North Walsham. We have also asked other suppliers for donations of products to enable us to refurbish the tables for the Car Boot Cafe and we remain hopeful. We have also procured another container where we will be able to store the items needed for the upkeep of the field and footballs teams.
Bodham Playing Field
We are very lucky to have two of the best floodlit amateur football
pitches in Norfolk and with a pavilion that provides showers, changing
facilities, toilets (including disabled) and a well equipped kitchen
area.
The Rocking Horse Sadly, the Rocking Horse is beyond a full repair, but as it is over 60 years old we are keen to keep it as a feature. Many of us fondly recall playing on this when we went to Bodham Primary School many years ago and have brought our children, grandchildren and even for some of us great grandchildren. For some 2 years this item of equipment has been out of use due to its decay and unsafe condition. Much work has been carried out dismantling it and storing all associated parts in dry storage in preparation for refurbishment in the spring. Once complete, although it’s rocking days are over, the horse will become a static piece that children may once again be able to play on.
At our meeting in December, Paul Clarke
gave a presentation on ideas for the play area.
People from our community who attended also put forward ideas to improve the field for all age groups as at the moment there is nothing for 10+ to play on. Some ideas are shown here.
All of these ideas come at a very high price as you can imagine.
If we are going to achieve this goal, we will need help and support. We have three people on our committee but we cannot do it alone. If you can volunteer for just one event or even part of it, it will make a huge difference to what we can achieve. If you feel you can help, just let us know. We are lucky to have volunteers who keep the pitches cut and weeded, the hedgerows trimmed and sort the CCTV.
We really need feedback from some of the younger members of our
community,
We are in the process of putting together grant applications and as part
of that we have to prove that we have consulted with the community.
Without this evidence we are less likely to be successful. Please could
you take a few moments to talk to your family and email the Secretary,
Mel Clarke on
secretary@bodhamvillage.co.uk with your thoughts and ideas about
what you think could enhance the Playing Field. For example:
Please come along to our Annual General Meeting at the Village Hall on
Tuesday 6th February. Playing Field Adult Equipment Grants to put exercise equipment on the Playing Field have been
obtained from the following sources: Norfolk Community Foundation
(£5,000), Active Norfolk (£1,000), Sport Relief (£1,377), Bodham Bingo
Club (£450), Bodham Horticultural Show (£422), Bodham's Big Weekend
(£250). Awards for All also contributed and the equipment was installed
in February 2009 and officially opened by Norman Lamb MP on Easter
Saturday 2009. The new equipment has been well used and equally well
received by everybody.
Planning permission has been granted to the Playing Field Committee to use the floodlights on three evening per weeks instead of a single evening per week. Thanks are extended to Bodham Parish Council for applying for and paying for this application.
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