NSA To Open New Community Sports Facilities Date: 26th May 2016 A new community clubhouse and skate park in the village of Nomansland, Wiltshire will be officially opened next month. Nomansland Sports Association, a charity run by a small band of volunteers, has spent the last four years raising almost 500,000 for this community project. The clubhouse has been carefully designed to be highly sustainable. The use of natural lighting, solar power, automatic occupation sensors, heat recovery and a highly insulated construction will mean that the energy consumption of the building will not be a burden on the charity in the future. The clubhouse, which includes spacious changing facilities and a large meeting room, will be used by a number of community groups including Red Stripes Nomansland Football Club who compete in the City of Southampton Sunday Football League. The long awaited new facilities will enable Nomansland and Landford Football Club to re-establish their Saturday side and to compete in the Drew Smith Southampton Saturday League. The club is actively recruiting new players anyone interested should contact NSA as soon as possible using the e-mail address below. Existing facilities at Nomansland Recreation Ground include two well maintained free hard tennis courts which are well used by the community and are the venue for regular tennis coaching. There are also cricket nets and children's play equipment. The new facilities will be available to anyone in the community, including the local primary school. Clubs that aim to involve young people aged between 5 and 16 in regular sport and outdoor activities will be particularly welcome. 1
John W Roberts, Chairman of the NSA, said the project is incredibly exciting. We will now be able to involve people of all ages at the recreation ground in competitive and coached football and tennis, and provide facilities for all sorts of local sporting clubs. The Fundraising Officer of the NSA, Gideon Aymes, added that this is a thriving community and they have done a fantastic job supporting this project. I am really looking forward to seeing the new skate park and youth club develop here. The skate park (which has been open since Easter) sparked a huge amount of interest from the outset, with many children and parents being involved in the design through meetings and consultations with the designers. Local resident and mother of two boys, Louise Forgan enthused the skate park is fabulous!! Every boy in the area is there at some point. It s really good for young lads to have somewhere to go and something to do. Another local parent, Kerry Cameron, said The NSA have done an amazing job. The place is thriving with children enjoying the park. It s great to see all these young children having fun. You ve created that.. well done. Construction of the new facilities has been made possible thanks to National Lottery funding from Sport England s Improvement Fund, Landfill Communities Funding by Viridor Credits Environmental Company, Cleansing Service Group and Hills Waste and grants from the Premier League through the Football Stadia Improvement Fund (FSIF), the New Forest National Park Sustainable Development Fund, Wiltshire Council and Redlynch Parish Council. John Lockwood, CEO of Viridor Credits Environmental Company, said that The Nomansland project epitomises the aims of the Landfill Communities Fund by providing community facilities for everyone in an environmentally sustainable way. I would like to congratulate NSA on delivering a challenging project. Peter McCormick OBE, Chairman of the Football Stadia Improvement Fund, said: The new pavilion at Nomansland Recreation Ground will provide a safe and suitable base for the club, which also meets the relevant Ground Grading criteria for their level of play. This development is a key example of the Premier League s commitment to improving football facilities to clubs at all levels of the 2
football pyramid across the country. I would like to thank everyone involved at the project for their hard work in making the new pavilion happen, and wish Nomansland Sports Association all the best for the future. John Glen, MP for Salisbury, said: I am delighted to see the works on the development at Nomansland Sports Association complete. The new facility will benefit the local community and boost levels of participation and interest in grassroots sport. Without the funding from the Premier League through the FSIF and from other major sponsors this project would not have been possible, and I would like to thank everyone involved with the project for their hard work and determination in making the facility a reality. The funding partners will be formally thanked at the clubhouse and skate park opening event, which will take place at 3pm on Saturday 11 June at Nomansland Recreation Ground, School Road, Nomansland. There will be entertainment and refreshments, a demonstration on the skate park, a football match involving prospective players for both Saturday and Sunday teams, as well as an opportunity to find out more about the many clubs and activities at the recreation ground. For further details or if you wish to use the facilities for your own event, please go to www.nomansland-sa.org.uk ENDS Notes to Editors For more information please contact Gideon Aymes T: 01794 884283 M: 07775 826818 E: nomanslandsportsassociation@yahoo.co.uk www.nomansland-sa.org.uk Nomansland Sports Association is a registered charity set up in 1982 and run entirely by volunteers to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare through recreation and leisure time occupation of the inhabitants of Nomansland and the surrounding areas. One of the main duties of the NSA is to operate Nomansland Recreation Ground at the end of School Road, Nomansland. The new clubhouse and skate park are the latest stage in the development of sports facilities at the 3
Recreation Ground. Further improvements are planned subject to the continuing support of the local community and the availability of funding partners. The opening event on June 11 is expected to be well attended by the local community, representatives of funding partners and John Glen, MP for Salisbury. We would welcome the attendance of the press. The following funding was provided for this project: 290,000 in National Lottery funding from Sport England s Improvement Fund. The Association is one of 36 projects across England to share over 12.5 million of National Lottery investment from the third round of funding. 131,534.80 of Landfill Communities Funding by Viridor Credits Environmental Company. The project is located in the vicinity of Viridor s Landfill site at Squabb Wood, Romsey and has benefited from the government s scheme to invest landfill tax into local communities in the vicinity of landfill sites. 50,000 from the Premier League through the Football Stadia Improvement Fund, the largest funders of non-league football in the country. Funded with 5.2m each year from the Premier League, the FSIF is the country s largest provider of grants towards projects that help improve the comfort and safety of lower league football grounds in both the professional and amateur game. These improvements range from new football stands and turnstiles to floodlighting and improved provision for disabled supporters. 50,000 of Landfill Communities Funding by Cleansing Service Group. The project is located in the vicinity of CSG s Landfill site at Pound Bottom in Redlynch and has benefited from the government s scheme to invest landfill tax into local communities in the vicinity of landfill sites. 25,000 from the New Forest National Park Sustainable Development Fund. The fund recognises the sustainability of the building and green technologies being used in its design and specification. 4
15,000 of Landfill Communities Funding by Community First on behalf of Hills Waste Solutions. 5,000 Community Grant by Wiltshire Council s South Wiltshire Area Board. 1,500 grant by Redlynch Parish Council towards this project. Funding Partner Notes to Editors Sport England is focused on helping people and communities across the country create a sporting habit for life. We will invest over 1 billion of National Lottery and Exchequer funding between 2012 and 2017 in organisations and projects that will: Help more people have a sporting habit for life Create more opportunities for young people to play sport Nurture and develop talent Provide the right facilities in the right places Support local authorities and unlock local funding Ensure real opportunities for communities. The latest round of the Improvement Fund focuses on facilities that will help get more young people playing sport. There are currently a record number of 3.9 million 16- to 25-year-olds playing sport every week, however, there is still more to do to help young people develop a sporting habit for life. The National Lottery has been changing lives for 18 years. Every week National Lottery players raise over 30 million to help change people's lives across the UK. Viridor Credits was established in 2001 to distribute Landfill Communities Fund monies on behalf of Viridor. Since then, Viridor Credits has distributed and committed more than 90million to thousands of community, heritage and biodiversity projects all over England and Scotland. The Landfill Communities Fund was set up by government in 1996 to enhance the environment for people living in the vicinity of landfill sites. Funds are raised for the scheme through the voluntary donation of a percentage of a landfill 5
operator s tax liability. The scheme has raised over 1billion for communities in the UK. Over the past 15 years the Hills Group has channelled over 11.4 million into environmental and other good causes across Wiltshire through the Landfill Communities Fund. From 2006 to March 2014 sustainability projects in the New Forest were funded by the National Park Authority's Sustainable Development Fund (SDF). In April 2014 the SDF was replaced by the Sustainable Communitites Fund. During its lifetime the SDF supported 117 projects, involving 375 community groups and 530 businesses to the benefit of 57,000. Projects making a difference to the environment, community and economy of the National Park included Sustainable buildings, Green technologies, Local food, Local goods, Education, Conservation and Transport. 6