Cutting the first sod
It is underway!!!!!! After so many months/years of hoping, during which we have been through so many highs and lows, we have finally achieved sufficient funding to award a contract for the extension to be built. We are still looking to raise more funding to pay for a patio and to extend the car park.
We are greatly indebted to the persistence and enthusiasm shown by Brian Simpson and Jessie West who have put in hours and hours of work meeting with and talking to so many possible sources of funding as well as filling in application forms and the countless support documentation that has to go with each application. It has been a big mountain for the village to climb and I know that so many of you have contributed in so many ways, it has been the enthusiasm that has come from so many parishioners that has kept Brian, Jessie and the rest of us going at times when we thought the idea could become just a fading dream.
Two contracts have been issued to ABS Ltd, one from the Parish Council who are responsible for spending all the money received from grants and one from UVHAT for the balance of the total cost.
As you can see the builders are already busy on site with a target completion date of the end of February.
Mike Brown