Moving forward on our new pitches...

I am pleased to tell you all that last night I received a call from the Chairman of the Governors of Cradley School, who advised me that the Governors that evening, had agreed to accept the Herefordshire Council's offer for the school field as was originally intended. The lease of the land can now be progressed once the legalities are conluded.

This brings to an end this 16 month saga which has delayed the progress of the field development we need so much. We can now proceed to seek funding for the project once the planning application is concluded in the next few months.

The wear of the current pitch is all too apparent as we were warned about by The Football Foundation , and with the extra teams we are fielding next season can only take its toll. With that in mind we have opened negotiations with the owners of the approx. 4 acre field to the east of Buryfields to establish a full size soccer pitch to accomodate under 12's in the season 2008/9. This means we have to establish the field before the end of this year ie levelling and seeding etc.to allow the ground to settle .

This will mean we have to redouble our efforts to make a success of the fund raisers we are holding this Summer to take care of these early costs. I am continuing my quest for the larger funding as before, prior to the major capital funding application.

Thank you all for your patience during this long delay, but we can now steadily move towards our goal of establishing our sports centre .

Kind regards

Frank Hare Chairman of the Trustees of Cradley Sports Club