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20 Jul 09 - New Funding Received |
From Dawn Crisp: From Jayne Tarrant: |
26 Jun 09 - Finance Update from Dawn Crisp |
Thrilled to report that a further £5,000 pledged earlier this week for the new hall by the Beatrice Laing Trust has arrived today. This means that to the end of June we still have not needed to draw down on the loan offered for the project. We have also had a visit this week from another prospective funder so fingers crossed! If this one is successful as well we will have almost hit our target! |
1 Jun 09 - Finance Update from Dawn Crisp |
NEW funds have been received from the following to help complete the new hall:.
At the time of going to press 9 applications were sitting with various potential partners, totalling over £80,000. Fingers crossed! |
14 Apr 09 - Finance Update from Dawn Crisp |
Just received news on one of our applications - Suffolk County Council grants programme, Single Gateway has awarded us £3,000 to support the supply and fitting of radiators and related pipework etc in the new hall!! Fingers crossed re other applications going before panels over the next fortnight! |
Apr 09 - How the Roof was Designed |
As the engineer who designed the roof structure for your new village hall, may I record my thanks to Rob Richardson and Barry Woods for taking the photos as it is erected - it's very rare I have the opportunity to actually watch a building I have been involved with go up! Hopefully the building will be everything you want (and more !) and I look forward to the next set of photo's. Andy McGovern, has given as a brief description of how it all went together - click here. |
Jan 09 - Finance Update from Dawn Crisp |
During the month of Janaury we received the following NEW donations for our building project:
Further applications (collectively totalling £46,500) remain with various possible funders - fingers crossed! I also intend to put a full financial report together for the next issue of ORACLE and the website that will explain exactly how the fundraising situation stands. Note: Once the spoil is removed from the building site (estimate this week), a road sweeper will be in action to clear the streets. Update: The road sweeper has just been through at 1:30pm, Thur 5 Feb - another result!!! |
Nov 08 - Latest funding news | |
Good news to report this week! Yesterday..... A £10,000 cheque arrived in the post from the Garfield Weston Foundation for our new hall! This means that since receiving our Big Lottery offer a further £13,500 has been added to the fund, including support from .... | Ipswich Building Society £500 Help the Aged £1,000 The Rank Foundation £2,000 giving us a running total of £397,603 secured. We have also had a few knock-backs but carry on undaunted! |
6 Oct 08 |
Coming soon................. .............to our village We are absolutely delighted to report that the National Lottery has today announced that they have awarded our Village Hall project a grant of See the Press Release from the |
| Mar 08 - Play Area and New Village Hall |
| Play Area We have secured £7,890 from ‘Awards for All’ to install galvanised metal fencing around the play area. Since submitting our original application the price of steel has shot up so we are applying for a little bit more from a couple of other sources just to complete the task and hope to have the new fencing, together with self closing gates in place soon. New Village Hall Different members of the ORAC team are now busy preparing the various documentation required to complete this stage (Capital Delivery Plans, Business Plans and Legal Work etc). Once submitted we will then have to wait up to a further 6 months to hear if we have been fully successful. So we are busy trying to pull everything together as soon as possible, whilst ensuring a professional approach, so that we have a final outcome by the end of this year! In the meantime, we are continuing to make applications to various other sources of funding to boost the appeal. Please stay positive – this round of the Lottery is far less competitive than the first so we are nearly there!!! |
Sep 07 | |
| Funding application work has continued throughout the summer – some successfully and some otherwise. The ‘biggie’ news from the Big Lottery bid is still awaited as the time of publication – are we through the first stage or not?? | We have continued to boost that application through the summer by sending in further information to support the cause. £20,000 pledged by the Youth Capital Fund has already been received along with a further £2,200 awarded to Youth Club for new equipment |
April 07 | |
As I write this little update, you will hopefully have seen some of the coverage we have managed to get in the local press acknowledging the various pledges of funding which have now started to come in for the new hall project. Since the Open Day held back in November the process on completing numerous application forms to relevant grant making trusts has been started and is moving on in earnest! To date we have secured pledges from the following:
| And an offer of practical support in the supply of paint from ICI via a local resident. This together with the £38000 set aside from local fundraising, plus £5,500 held by Occold Parish Council sees us almost at that £100,000 mark! We need to reach £390,000 to commence the main build and we are now awaiting the outcome of bids and initial approaches to:
Two bids have been submitted to the Big Lottery - one to the 'Community Buildings' programme and a second in conjunction with Occold Primary School to the 'Reaching Communities' programme. Remember your employer may well operate a Community Programme which as an employee you could apply to for support of the new village hall project - if you need any information to help you to do this please give Dawn a shout! |
January 07 | |
| Tenders have now been received from 6 Building Contractors ranging from lowest to highest by some £200K!! We are now in negotiation with one contractor to see what areas of work we can contribute ourselves as 'volunteer time' i.e. patio laying, landscaping, hedging, car park works etc to get the initial tender down. We are also looking at the heating side of the project. During December, 5 applications have been prepared and sent off to various grant funders to start the 'ball rolling' on financing the project and ORAC are grateful to Frances Bedding for her help in pointing us in the right direction with these - fingers crossed! Initial applications to the Big Lottery Fund (Community Buildings) will be made in the new year along with several others. | WHAT CAN YOU DO!!! Do you work for or have business connections with a bank of building society or a major PLC - NPower, Greene King, BT, British Sugar, Morrisons, Tescos, Solar, Felixstowe Port Authority etc? Many of these companies operate a grant making programme whereby staff can apply for small grants or match funding towards projects in their local community. Every little could help from £200 upwards and could cost you as little as a phone call or an email as an employee. If you need any further details on the project to make any such application then please get in touch with Dawn Crisp and she will forward the necessary. Any such contribution will be acknowledged as requested. |
November 06 | |
The design incorporates:
| Where we are to-date:
ORAC held an Open Day on 10th Nov which was highly successful. A financial statement (see below)was also made available. It is hoped to publish a frequently asked questions and answers shortly. |
May 06 | |
| We have been awarded £550 from Councillor Jeremy Clover's locality budget to help with the cost of fees in connection with our new hall - every little helps! Planning permission for the new hall design has been granted. We now move on to the next stage of | pulling together the tender documents to go out to contractors for pricing and also begin the process for seeking additional funding! There is some urgency in this and we hope to report progress in the next edition. |
February 06 | |
| The latest village hall plans are now with MSDC for planning approval and the regulatory yellow notice is on display. Your Parish Council is recommending acceptance and any letters of support from individuals or groups should help ensure approval. Unfortunately, our application for an Awards for All Grant (£5000) to help with some of the initial fees was unsuccessful. | However, we intend to reapply as soon as the new award year starts on 1st April. But this will mean that, in order to move the project forward, we will have to utilise some of the village hall fund which currently stands at £41,025.15. ORAC would like to thank Steve Halil for his generous assistance to Andrew Crisp in maintaining our ageing Village Hall. |
Plans
 Artist's impression |  Field layout |  Floor plan |  South elevation |  North elevation |
 East elevation |  West elevation |  Cross-section, main hall |  Cross-section, play school |
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| Forecast Costs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architect and design & build consultants estimate a build cost of £375,000 (say £400,000 in total including the up-front costs incurred already). This means we have locally raised/contributed a total of £51,319 (£46,319 + £5,000) or almost 13% of the total project cost. VAT exemption confirmed. This would save us £70,000 on top of that £400,000 total design and build cost. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Possible Funding Sources | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Once the exact project cost is known, we will approach the following:
Unfortunately we are unable to apply for a Suffolk Environmental Trust Grant (landfill tax rebate scheme) as Occold is not within the required distance of a landfill site. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||