Friends of Marple Memorial Park

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The Friends of Marple Memorial Park web site has been updated with the minutes of the meeting held on 14 March 2016:

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/monthly-meetings.html

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The Friends of Marple Memorial Park web site has been updated with the minutes of the meeting held on 8 February 2016:

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/monthly-meetings.html

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The Friends of Marple Memorial Park web site has been updated with the minutes of the meeting held on 11 January 2016:

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/monthly-meetings.html

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The Marple Memorial Park Skatepark Development Project page on the Friends of the Park web site has been updated following fundraising efforts over the Christmas period plus a recent new development. Collectively these give us a huge boost to the new fundraising year.

In summary the main updates are: £419 Raised by the Hatters Arm and All Things Nice for Halloween and Movember; £901 Collected with Marple & GV Rotary Club in Marple Asda over Christmas; £458 from the Giant Hamper Raffle and Guess the Sweets competition in Marple Asda; Ring o' Bells Quiz Nights reach £1,552 total and £2,500 released to the project by the Forever Manchester / CDL Fund.

This gives us some fantastic progress against our £100,000 target and thanks to our £1 for £1 match-funding agreement with Stockport Council we only need to raise a further £18,860.

Visit the Skatepark Project page and scroll down to the fundraising blog section for full details:

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/projects/skate-park-improvements.html

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The Friends of Marple Memorial Park web site has been updated with the minutes of the meeting held on 9 November 2015:

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/monthly-meetings.html

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The Friends of Marple Memorial Park web site has been updated with the minutes of the meeting held on 14 September 2015:

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/monthly-meetings.html

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Been waiting for several weeks to announce this. Thank you to Stockport Council for their ongoing support of Marple Skatepark Development Project!

The Marple Memorial Park Skatepark Development Project page on the Friends of the Park web site has been updated following Stockport Council agreeing to increase the £22k of Formal Sports Commuted allocated to the project in February 2014 by a further £28k on a £ for £ match-funding basis. This means that they will match the money raised within the community by up to £50,000 and we will need to raise a total of £50,000 too in order to achieve our aims. This agreement has a deadline of April 2018 (when the current planning permission expires).

This £ for £ match-funding agreement is a massive step forward for the project after our previous funding strategy set-backs. It means that every £1 raised so far is worth £2 and every £1 raised in the future will also be worth £2 as well. It will enable us to get there twice as fast as without it and we hope that it will inspire the local community to get right behind us again as we push on to raise the balance of funds that we need before the deadline.

If you can help us to raise a few £1's, a few £100's or even a few £1,000's please get in touch. Every £1 raised by you or us, or from any grant scheme will be matched by the Council!

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/projects/skate-park-improvements.html

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The Friends of Marple Memorial Park web site has been updated with the minutes of the meeting held on 10 August 2015:

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/monthly-meetings.html

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The Friends of Marple Memorial Park web site has been updated with the minutes of the meeting held on 13 July 2015:

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/monthly-meetings.html

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The Friends of Marple Memorial Park web site has been updated with the minutes of the Skatepark Meeting held on 8 June 2015:

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/monthly-meetings.html

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The Marple Memorial Park Skatepark Development Project page on the Friends of the Park web site has been updated following allocation of £240 donated by author K. C. Dowling and £402 raised by the Julian Wadden Treasure Hunt towards the Skatepark Project. This takes our community raised match funding for the project to £23,753, so only £54,247 to go!

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/projects/skate-park-improvements.html

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The Marple Memorial Park Skatepark Development Project page on the Friends of the Park web site has been updated this morning:

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/projects/skate-park-improvements.html

As everyone who has been following the project will know, in March 2015 we submitted a grant application to the Lafarge-Tarmac Landfill Community Fund seeking £62,000, which was the balance of funds that we needed to complete the project. This was reviewed in May 2015 and unfortunately our application was not successful so we now need to decide what to do next.

The cost of the project is £100,000. So far £23,000 of Community Match-Funding has been raised. The Council has also set aside £22,000, so we have £45,000 altogether. This means that we still need to raise £55,000 to achieve the aims of the project.

We are going to need lots more support from the community if we are to recover from this setback and eventually succeed, so if you can help please get in touch.

Watch this space for PLAN C!

Here's an extract from the letter we received yesterday afternoon:

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The Friends of Marple Memorial Park web site has been updated with the minutes of the meeting held on 11 May 2015:

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/monthly-meetings.html

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The Friends of Marple Memorial Park web site has been updated with the minutes of the AGM held on 13 April 2015:

http://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/monthly-meetings.html

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Great work ! The end of a long road almost, to the Skatepark.