Newsflash: Funding!

Some exciting news - Sarah has been successful in securing the additional £14,000 needed to create a minimum structure, meaning we are all set to commence with the build in the new year!

Clearly we still have some way to go to secure full funding to complete the project, so the Experian team has started planning an unusual (and seasonal!) fundraising event for January. In my opinion, it's key to the success of this event that we have a JustGiving page set 

up in order that we can take donations electronically, and spread the word amongst colleagues, friends, families, & the community.  For this to happen, though, we need Hogarth Primary School to register with JustGiving as a charity.  From talking to Jemma, I understand that there's a reluctance to do this because it costs £15 per month .  Personally, I think this cost is well worth  bearing - not least because it makes it much easier to boost donations with Gift Aid; in fact, we would only need to raise £68 per month to make the £15 subscription back through Gift Aid!  So, a question for Fiona & Ken & Jenny I guess - what do you think?  I will chip in out of my own pocket if that will help! 

Finally, the finishing touches are being put on a newsletter for the local community, which we're looking forward to distributing in January, and also posting on this website.  Thanks to hard work from Patrick, James, Jemma, Mike, & Lily, the draft looks great!

  

Sneinton & Shane Meadows

I was reading about the history of Sneinton on Wednesday, and was very excited to learn that it's been an important place for the director Shane Meadows, who made most of his early short films in the area, and also filmed the award-winning This is England (2006) in St Ann's.

We had the idea that he might like to support the Pavilion project, so Patrick and Sarah are trying to find out how we can get in touch with him.

Shane Meadows recalled Sneinton in a recent interview: “This inner-city neighbourhood means a lot to me. Centred around Sneinton Market, it’s where everything began in my career. I was living alone in one of the more impoverished areas of Sneinton during the summer of 1994 and started making these short films around the streets. In fact, all my first short films (including the breakthrough Small Time) were filmed exclusively here. Unlike other urban areas of Nottingham, it isn’t full of students – so it’s held onto its identity and character: the people next to you in the pub are likely to have families who have been here for generations. Sneinton is also very multicultural and, as a massive fan of spicy foods, the Indian restaurants kept me going back then. I’ve got loads of happy memories of those streets, especially a pub called The Bendigo (named after a local legend William ‘Bendigo’ Thompson, a bare-knuckle world champion who was a hard-drinking fighter turned religious preacher – now buried in nearby St Mary’s Cemetery). You know you’re in a proper pub when there’s a statue of a bare-knuckle boxer on the roof – and you’d get a very lively night in there I can tell you! Bendigo was like Nottingham’s Raging Bull, so there might be a film in all that somewhere!”

£14,000 additional funding needed to build a minimum structure

Minutes/Actions from this morning’s meeting with Groundworks

Alison from Groundworks presented a plan to build a minimum structure which included:-

- Demolition of existing building
- An insulated structure and roof
- Internals prepared ready for decoration
- Fitted Health room
- Fitted Accessible toilet
- Floor finishes to the health room and accessible toilet
- First fixes for plumbing
- Security and fire alarms

The estimated cost for this work, which is the minimum amount of work we can carry out and satisfy the Primary Care Trust funding requirements, is £83k. We have £7k of committed costs and so the total cost is £90k, leaving us £14k short of this figure. We have agreed to go to tender during December, cognisant of this shortfall, but will not contract with a builder until it is resolved.

To give an approximate idea of the cost of chunks of work de-scoped which could be tackled under a further phase of work:-

- Heating £8k
- Kitchen and standard toilets £5k
- Security & External works £10k
- Storage £1k
- Floor finish to main room £2k
- Lighting to main room £3k
- Doors and partitions £4k
- Fees £5k
- Decorating £1k
Total £40k

We will need to consider other fund raising opportunities to complete the basic works

Hi All,

Just to say hello from Sarah Heesom and the St Ann's and Sneinton EIP.

Will be back in touch soon.

Cheers

Sarah

Light at the end of the tunnel?

As Head of Hogarth I would just like to say a BIG "Thank - you" to Experian for taking our project under their wing! After years of trying to renovate the Pavilion it looks like we may get there! The help that we have had along the way from the organisations Pro help, Gleeds and Groundworks coupled with the efforts of Claire Patala and Sarah Heesom and the working group are now bearing fruit. The building has the potential to support the whole community of Hogarth and its neighbours - watch this space!

Calling New Authors!

We've just invited Fiona, the headteacher at Hogarth Primary School, Claire Patala, Extended Schools Co-ordinator, Sarah Heesom from Nottingham City Council, as well as the whole of the Experian team, to become authors on the blog.

If you'd like to become an author for the blog, or if you get stuck trying to respond to an invitation, please get in touch with Sam at sam.gilbert@uk.experian.com or 07527 462 120.

Open letter to the Experian team

I'm really happy with start that Ken, Jenny and I made on the blog last night.

Patrick, Keith, Eamon, Nathan, Mike, James, Nick, Steph, Jemma, Anthony, Phil - it would be great if you guys could became "followers" to show Experian's support for regenerating the Pavilion. Even better, let me know if you'd be happy to post ideas & news about your involvement with the project and we can set up access for you.

How is this project being funded?

We're hoping that Carillion, who have won the contract to build Nottingham Academy, might provide some funding as Hogarth Primary School is one of the Academy`s feeder schools.
The total cost of the project is expected to be £125,000.
We have already secured £76,000, £60,000 of which is from the Primary Care Trust, and must be used towards the project before March 31st. OR LOSE IT!!
The clock is ticking, and we are fast approaching the deadline!!!!!
Can you, or anyone you know support our goal? Perhaps it could be in the form of sponsorship towards some equipment?

Please let us know.

We had another meeting today, 17 November, and we are £14,000 short of the required amount to guarantee the start of building work.
We now, more than ever need your help and financial support to get the build started by the deadline!!!!!

What does the Pavilion look like today?

The building is a "Horsa" construction, built probably in the late 1940`s.

It has seen a number of uses, but lately as a storage unit for Hogarth Primary School.

The interior is cold, cramped, dark and in need of T.L.C.