Beaminster: New sports pavilion to be officially opened (From Bridport and Lyme Regis News)

Beaminster: New sports pavilion to be officially opened

10:25am Thursday 4th February 2010

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NEXT week will see Beaminster’s football and cricket clubs officially celebrate the opening of the town’s news Memorial Sports Pavilion.

Mike Runyard of Beaminster Sports Association said it was ‘a credit to our town’.

The Beaminster Community Centre Partnership worked on the project to provide modern facilities for sportsmen and women in Beaminster for more than three years.

Money came from five major fundraisers – Beaminster Town Council, the Football Foundation, West Dorset District Council, Beaminster football and cricket clubs.

Beaminster Town Council took out £140,000 loan for the project and the Football Foundation gave £215,000, with the district council pledging £20,000 and the cricket £14,000 from the cricket and football clubs.

Campaigner Coun Gilbert Berry said: “It has been a long time coming but worth the wait but the three years has gone very quickly. I think it is quite an achievement.

“We have a new pavilion which will be about a third to a half bigger than the previous one from the 1960s. It is great credit to Beaminster and of great value to the people who will use it. We are delighted.”

The original plans were much more ambitious but after a £280,000 Lottery bid failed and the Beaminster Playgroup pulled out they had to be scaled down from the original £600,000 scheme to a single-storey timber-clad building with new changing rooms, disabled facilities and a community area. The building has disabled access.

The sports clubs have been invited to celebrate the new facility on Friday, February 12 between 4pm and 7pm.

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