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Kirkby Lonsdale Rugby Union Football Club
A Campaign to Provide Facilities for Kirkby
Lonsdale and Surrounding Communitiesat Underley
Park
Community Amateur Sports Club Reg No
03694 Incorporated under the Industrial and
Provident Societies Act 1965 Reg No 46R
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The Aim
The purpose of the appeal is to raise 780,000 to
provide adequate facilities at Underley Park to
cope with the existing, hugely successful Mini,
Youth and Colts along with a variety of other
Community events that use the site. The funds
will be used to Build an additional 8
Changing Rooms (including 2 female Changing
Rooms) Develop 4 new pitches to make them
fully playable Extend the kitchen area to
help cater for all the visitors to the site
Improve the toilet provision Build a
new road to improve access and parking
Improve the floodlighting and reduce
pollution The urgent need for the facilities
means that we are looking to start works in 2008
and the project is due to be completed in 2009.
From a standing start, we have gathered together
a great deal of support already and are now
looking for the final push to help turn these
plans into reality. Please look at the plans for
both the building and Underley Park to see where
and how the facilities will be hugely improved to
enable a much wider community use than currently
available, with playing fields for any activity
and plans to develop archery and hopefully
tennis.
Problem The existing facilities were not
designed to cope with current needs
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Some Background - for those that are just
visiting

• Kirkby Lonsdale is a small market town with a
  resident population of about 2000, generally at
  the greyer end of the scale, nestled between the
  Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales.
• Its geographical position in the South East
  corner of Cumbria means that it draws visitors
  and support, both young and old, from Cumbria,
  Lancashire and North Yorkshire.
• Kirkby Lonsdale RUFC is a Community based Club
  with an extensive Mini, Youth and Colts set up,
  providing 30 Volunteer coaches for about 300
  players and access to a lifetime of Rugby for all
  ages, from Under 7 to Over 70.
• The Club provides a base for the towns Brass
  Band to practice twice a week and the pitches are
  used for the KL Rounders Team, along with holiday
  sports clubs with South Lakeland District
  Council.
• Underley Park is also the base for the Kirkby
  Lonsdale Bonfire and the Lunesdale Agricultural
  Show along with Charity Suppers, fundraising for
  the Northwest Air Ambulance and MND and
  Balloonists.
• The Clubhouse is used by the KL Hockey and
  Cricket Clubs for social events and the Club
  provides access to its website to a number of
  sports and local organisations to help the
  information flow.
• In 2007, KLRUFC was awarded Year 3 Seal of
  Approval, one of only 20 Clubs in the country and
  linked with Sale Sharks as a Shark Mark Club in
  November 2007. The RFU has agreed to help with
  about half of the necessary requirements
• With over 25,000 visitors to the site each
  year, 3 washbasins and no female changing is not
  enough.

We recognise that self-help is option one and we
have to fill the gap
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Click-a-Brick Campaign
We are raising funds throughout the membership
and community with the Click-a-Brick
Campaign. The full details are available on the
website and it gives the chance for individuals
to pay into the Development Fund Account
directly. There is obviously no maximum but
there are a variety of possible items
available Click-a- Brick
40 (Multiples allowed) Ton of
Topsoil 70 (Help banish those stones)
Valet Parking 150 (In our dreams)
Share-a-Shower 300 (Limit it to 20 rather than
300) Grab-a-Girder 500 (Help build the
roof) The Front Door 1000 (Ever
open) One for the Children
Take-a-Tile 10 (The pocket-money option) All
donors will be recorded and names (not amounts)
will be acknowledged in the Clubhouse Display.
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Funding Target
SLDC RFF RFU
780,000 480,000 275,000 0 Where we
were 6th April 2007
Lottery?
Where we are up to 22nd November, 2007
??? Donations
Still to do
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Contact Details and Reference Documents
If you would like to discuss any aspects of this
please do call or email, Neil Anderson
015242 71975 president_at_klrufc.co.uk Bernard
Moore 015242 72268 develop_at_klrufc.co.uk If
you would like to see the rationale for the
development and the full proposal that is made to
funders, you will need to either type in
www.klrufc.co.uk and follow the links to
Development Plan or click here. If you would
like to see the Building and Site Plans, they are
available via the Clubs website as above
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Our Partners
We have spent a great deal of time building up
support for this project, some more moral than
financial. Success and Making it Happen is now
down to real people - us
Support The Rugby Football Union The North West
Facilities Group The Rugby Football
Foundation Cumbria Rugby Union South Lakeland
District Council Craven District Council Cumbria
County Council Kirkby Lonsdale Town Council The
Underley Estate Orchard Brayton Graham LLP The
Lunesdale Agricultural Show Kirkby Lonsdale Brass
Band
Schools Partnerships Sedbergh School Baliol
School Queen Elizabeth School Dallam
School Hornby School Ingleton School St Marys St
Annes a further 10 schools
Become a Partner Click-a-Brick or better
still, buy in bulk