Climate Action Norfolk has provided £4,000 of match funding
Fit out of Thornham's New Sports Pavilion
Hunstanton, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Aim
We are raising funds to fit out New Sports Pavilion in a sustainable way that is close to carbon neutral.
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Overview
The New Sports Pavilion will be a home for our cricket and tennis clubs, other indoor sports and fitness classes as well as a community hub supporting coffee & cake mornings, the history society and as a social club to increase community cohesion and reduce loneliness. This money being raised will enable us to fit out the pavilion, ensuring access for all athletes regardless of sex, age or disability and provide a warm, safe and comfortable community space.
We will have five changing rooms, allowing us to host mixed teams, with men, women and juniors and a disabled facility to encourage sport for all. We will have a kitchen that will allow us to provide cricket teas, social drinks after sport and also to provide hot / cold drinks and snacks for our juniors during their training sessions.
Moving to Net Zero
The fit out builds on our carbon neutral credentials that we developed in the main build. We used innovative pre-papered walls, fitted with high quality insulation, which reduced our carbon footprint in the build, reduced the numbers of lorries and the environmental impact.
The fit out includes under floor heating to reduce carbon emissions, collection of rain water for use in the toilets and re-use where possible of the changing room facilities to reduce the need to purchase new. With the excellent insulation and the intended addition of solar panels and batteries, we believe that this building will be close to net zero.
Flexible community space
We want to fit out the pavilion so it is a flexible space, that can be used for fitness classes, indoor bowls and also display our Thornham History Society memorabilia, making it a community building routed in the past as well as the future.
Protection of the environment
The siting of the pavilion was done to minimise environmental damage. We carefully moved the three affected trees to other parts of the grounds and will be planting native English species around the pavilion once it is complete.
Norfolk Community Fund has provided £2,500 of match funding
This project successfully funded on 31st December 2025