Energy Cost Saving - Cost of living crisis

Aim

Replace old/broken solar panels & invertor and replace the old expensive lighting on the training pitch and carpark area

Who are we?

Founded in 1962 the Club is situated in the North of Doncaster and currently runs 4 Senior Teams including a newly formed Women's Team, a Junior Section and 3 Girls Teams. The 1st XV are in Yorkshire Division Three, the 2nd XV play in the South Yorkshire Merit Table while the Wheatley 3rds and Vets play occasionally.

Why are we crowdfunding?

Like many other organisations, the club is being hugely hit by the price increases relating to the cost of living crisis. Over the past few years we have been exploring various options for replacing our current expensive floodlights with LED floodlights and also replacing our 15 year old solar panels and invertor, sadly this now seems even more unattainable, due to the increase in material costs involved in completing such a project.  

We have 100's of young people and adults using our facilities each week and think we may be at a point of not being able to continue to provide some of these services. We really don't want to have to reduce the time allowed on our site based on keeping the lights on or turning them off due to the cost of utilities.

The last thing we want to have to do is increase our membership payments to the point that families and individuals are paying to simply cover the rising costs!

How we’ll spend the money raised

Replace our current floodlights with LED energy efficient heads would significantly reduce the costs to all sections of the club. Also, replacing the broken Solar Panels on the roof of the clubhouse and adding new battery storage to ensure we can power the lights and clubhouse sustainably would be a fantastic improvement. This would also allow us to offer more sport on the pitches throughout the year, particularly to our open-age women's teams, junior boys and junior girls' teams who play on-site during these months.

Community impact

We are a multi sports facility with Doncaster Archers and Doncaster Mustangs American Football based on our site. We also have our very own running and walking Club which are both run at zero cost to our community, offering couch 2 5k programs 3 times a year and over 300 people have benefited from this great service.

How you can play your part

There are four simple ways to help us reach our target, and make this project a reality.

1. Make a pledge. Don’t delay if you’re going to support us because momentum is key to our success!

2. Spread the word. Share our project on your social media pages and tell the world to get behind us! The more people we reach, the more support we will get.

3. Offer rewards. Get involved if you are a local business by donating things we can offer to our supporters. We will give you a shout out!

4. Fundraise for us. If you want to run your own fundraiser – maybe a sponsored activity or similar – use the 'contact project' button at the top of our page to let us know. Setting up your own page only takes a few minutes and you won’t need any bank details. Just a fun idea!

This project successfully funded on 14th February 2024