Tunstead & Sco-Ruston

  • Can you help out on Sunday 1st March 2020 ?

    Can you help out on Sunday 1st March 2020 at the Tunstead Recreation Ground?
    If you can spend a couple of hours or so, on Sunday 1st March, please come to the rec for the tidy-up session.
    The session starts at 10:00am and will conclude at 1:00pm.
    Stay as long as you can. Bring tools and items you have that can cut scrub and small shrubs, brambles etc. If you have heavier kit that can be used to remove thicker undergrowth, saplings etc, please bring that along too. A skip would be handy!
    Refreshments will be provided during the session.
    The Tunstead Village Hall Committee look forward to seeing you there.
    Thanks in advance
    The TVH Committee.
    Whilst we are not expecting to get the neglected area of the park to change from the photo above into this; any effort will be gratefully received. If we can tidy up the space, using members of our village, it will help us apply for a grant to rejuvenate this often overlooked area of the Tunstead Recreation Ground. See the article below.
    Pocket Parks – Grant
    Last year saw a repeat of grant provision by the Ministry of Housing. In November, Tunstead missed out because we were not ready to apply. But this year we will be well prepared.
    The grant is for up to £15,000 to start a public park or renovate small spaces that can be used as such. If we can demonstrate that the local community is behind this initiative, it will give us additional “Brownie Points” when we apply for the “Pocket Parks” grant. To that end, the Tunstead Village Hall Committee are holding a recreation ground tidy-up working party. The idea is to renovate the corner of the rec, that holds the field drainage pond. This has become overgrown, and is in desperate need of rejuvenation. If we, as a community, can demonstrate that we value this particular area of the park, it will hold us in good stead when applying for the grant.

  • Tunstead Village Hall AGM – 2019

    It is currently a very exciting and busy time for the village hall committee. We are having plans drawn up for the new village hall.

    We have sent out a questionnaire to everyone in the village asking for opinions on what people want from the hall when it is built.

     

    We have had a representative from the Football Association (FA) take a look around the recreation ground in order to assess our position for obtaining grants from the FA.  We are also running our regular events; the Yard Sale is coming up on the 12th May, and the Village Fete on the 9th June.

     

    The Annual General Meeting,
    which had to be postponed in April, will now take place on Tuesday 14th May at 7:30pm. We have just one vacancy for a Trustee. If you would like to join the committee please come along to the meeting in the modular building.

     

    It is not necessary to be on the committee to volunteer to help run the village hall and recreation ground charity. We are looking for people with particular skills to join the body of 50 volunteers that help us already. We are currently looking for volunteers with professional and technical skills in:

    • Legal Matters – to help establish the legal basis for the Charity and its new hall.
    • Bid Writer – someone to help with making applications to grant providers to fund the building of the hall.
    • Building Project Manager – someone with established skills to ensure the construction of the village hall will be a success.
    • Grounds-Keeping – a person who will be able to prepare the recreation ground for football matches and other events. Also, to ensure that the play area is safe for the children to use.
    • Questionnaire Reviewer – a person with skills in assessing responses to the questionnaire sent out recently.

    If you have any of the above skills or other technical skills, especially when the construction of the village hall is under-way next year, please come along and have a chat.
    The plans for the village hall will also be on display at the AGM.

  • Defibrillator Campaign Gains Momentum

    Last night, 10th October, at the Tunstead Village Hall Committee evening, the “Defibrillator for Tunstead” campaign got a little closer to its fruition. Gilly Foulds, the owner of the Horse and Groom (our village pub) made a donation to the fund.

    Every fourth Tuesday of the month, the Horse and Groom host a quiz night. The prize of 50% of the total entry fees collected, going to the winner, and 25% to the runner up. Gilly then donates the remainder to the village funds. Currently, the village is focusing upon the purchase of a defibrillator to be installed within the phone box opposite the primary school. An article published on the parish council web site describes a defibrillator and its use, and can read by following this LINK .

    The next quiz night to be held at the Horse and Groom is 24th October at 8:00pm, teams can enter for a small fee. So come along and exercise your brain cells as well as exercising your right arm (lifting glasses of delicious ale). You will have an entertaining and challenging evening, and would be contributing to the current campaign of getting a defibrillator for the village.

  • Can we get a new modular building?

    There was a presentation at the last Tunstead Village Hall meeting. The presentation described the results of a feasibility study that was undertaken to determine the viability of purchasing a replacement modular building.

    A lot of hard work has gone into raising funds for a new village hall.  Several attempts to apply for a Lottery Grant have not come to fruition, so a new direction was sought, especially as the old modular building is fast becoming beyond economic repair. It was for that reason that the suggestion to replace it with a stock modular building was muted. The village has now raised £30,000. It was felt that the time had come to take a serious look at purchasing a replacement, so the feasibility study was commissioned.

    The presentation started with a review of the needs of the village. It continued by discussing how the needs of the village can be resolved through use of an updated modular building. The presenter felt that our village could demonstrate “need” in a significant way; namely isolation. Tunstead and Sco Ruston do not have local access to services and facilities, and villagers have to travel to use those services. In a world where every ounce of emission, pollution, and energy is measured through a concern for the environment, having the ability to host some of those services and facilities within the village will give significant leverage on obtaining a grant to supplement the money the village has so far raised.

    It was shown that £30,000 does go a long way towards purchasing  a new building, but it does not cover a large number of other costs associated with the installation of such a building. The presentation continued by looking at the ways in which the significant short-fall could be raised; through grants. It was shown that grants can come from a number of sources; not just the Lottery, using the Norfolk County Council Community Fund Service. Using this service it would be possible to identify grant suppliers and apply for a number of smaller grants to fulfil specific areas of need; both financial and social.

    The next step is to create a project plan for the replacement modular building, and publish it; seeking responses and commitment to the plan.

    Here are the highlight slides used in the presentation. Hilights of feasibility study

    If you have any constructive thoughts on this subject please use the comments section at the bottom of the page or contact the Village Hall Committee.

     

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