New tennis courts

Aim

Our project is to build two new tennis courts at Risbygate Sports Club to enable the tennis section to extend it's community reach

Rewards

The following have all been donated by our generous members, all proceeds go directly to the crowdfunder!

Reward 042 - 6 cans of delicious authentic Spanish Solsueño Sangria

A pack of 6 330ml cans of Spanish sangria. Perfect for a BBQ or picnic, ready to drink straight from the fridge, or even warmed as a light mulled wine for those colder days.

Available for just £10 - half the normal selling price. Obviously will only be able to be sold and handed over to someone who is over 18.

Reward 025 - Original Pastel Drawing of Lackford Nature Reserve - PRICE REDUCTION

Original Pastel Drawing by local artist Nancy Williams 11"x 14" mounted but not framed.

Being offered for just £50

Reward 054 - Alexander Technique lesson

One Alexander technique lesson by Alfi MIchelsen

Alfi is an ex dancer and actor and experienced Alexander technique practitioner

The Alexander technique teaches improved posture and movement, which is believed to help reduce and prevent problems caused by unhelpful habits. During the  lesson you will learn to be more aware of your body, how to improve poor posture and move more efficiently. The lesson will take place at Alfis House in Felsham

For more details contact Alfis wife Pippa MIchelsen 07425605118

Normal price £65  offered for £50

Reward 053 - Afternoon Tea for 2 at Westbury Cafe

Offer at the club's very own cafe, normally £20 being offered for £15

Reward 052 - Wentworth Wooden Jigsaws

Wentworth Wooden Puzzles/ most 500 pieces (1 is 400 and 1 is 250 pieces) A really challenging puzzle and great for all the family. Original condition/boxes/bags. Retail price for 500 pieces approximately £63.00, for 250 pieces £32.00.    Asking £35.00 for the 500 piece and £23.00 for 250 piece

Jigsaw B - Anglesey Abbey

Jigsaw E - The Oxonian Castle

Jigsaw I - Country House on Lake Atter

Reward 003 - Explore Suffolk in a WW2 Jeep

A unique experience to take in the scenic Suffolk countryside in a beautifully restored and genuine WW2 Jeep. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions about the vehicle and its history and to also stop at a Suffolk pub for a drink if you wish.

This is for 2 adults departing from BSE and lasting approx. 90 minutes This will be best enjoyed in Spring / Summer, a stop in a country pub for a drink can be included if desired.

Cost is £80

Contact Lauren Grant on 07810 400793 for more information. 

Reward 006 -  1 x 90 minute Therapy for Stress, Anxiety, Fears, Phobias or Cravings

What is stopping you from achieving your potential, or doing the things you want to do in life? 

Is it food cravings? A fear, phobia or past trauma? Maybe stress or a lack of confidence?  If any of these sound like you, and you feel ready to change, then read on.

Jo is a club member with a local practice, she uses a combination of techniques including NLP, EFT AKA ‘tapping’, mindfulness and meditation (if you’ve not heard of some of these techniques, think Paul McKenna!) to tailor a 90 minute therapy session to meet your specific requirements.  Not only will you receive a therapy session, but you will also be provided with any tools required to help you to support yourself, afterwards.  Jo Wortley has been using these techniques in her clinic for over 13 years. This 90 minute session normally costs £90.  Complete client confidentiality is guaranteed. Available here for £50

Reward 020 - Stylised personal portrait

50 x 50 cm stylised portrait by Don Gray, Don would need to meet the person being painted. Illustrative example of work below.

Priced at just £300 for this unique opportunity.

Reward 024 - Bridge afternoon Friday 27th October

Bridge afternoon at Risbygate Sports and Social Club, Friendly Duplicate Bridge Fundraising Tournament on Friday 27th October 2023 1.45 onwards £15 per player including afternoon tea

Tickets are selling fast so book soon… see poster below for contact info

Reward 027 - Sew a kimono jacket workshop

A friendly and informative workshop to learn new skills and sew your own simple jacket. Taught by craftsmen trained and working in the garment industry you will learn how to create a garment built to last.

Fabric and notions included.

Suitable for someone with at least basic sewing machine skills, bring your own machine or use one of ours. Tea and coffee included, please bring a packed lunch, you will be on the workshop with up to 9 other people. email [email protected] for more information or with questions. PRICE DROP now just £95

Reward 047 - Chinese Money Plant

Well established indoor plant, can grow quite tall, plus grow offshoots that you can cultivate and replant. Usually cost at least £15, on offer here for £7 per plant, six available.

Reward 048 - Handmade Pottery from Pippa's Pots

Pippa is a talented potter who exhibits in the Suffolk Open studios. This is a unique chance to buy some of her lovely hand painted pieces at discounted rates.

1.Small decorated plate with black and white design £25

5.Pale blue dish with sun design £15

6.Pale Blue dish with white centre and blue edge design £15

Reward 049 - Handmade Candlestick Holders

The handmade and completely unique items have been locally made and will be a talking point in any home. All designed to hold a 3" diameter candle

#1 120 high x 240mm wide

#2 - 380mm high x 230mm wide

#3 170mm high x 220mm wide

#4 140mm high x 190mm wide

#5 270mm high x 360mm wide

#6 240mm high x 180mm wide

Reward 029 - brand new Aasics womens tennis shoes

Top brand white size 39 (small 6), yours for just £18!! Contact Francesca Payge on 07515 336255 with any questions

Reward 030 - new Nicola Sexton ladies shoes

Size 41 Uk size 8. Original price £130, Contact Penny Taylor 07901 606817 with any questions. Priced at £35

Reward 033 - Event / Wedding Planning Mini Workshop 

£100 for a 2 hour consultation with a professional event planner that will either help a) get you started with theming ideas, supplier suggestions, budget advice and scope your whole event or alternatively b) will review your plans to ensure nothing has been missed and give you confidence in your day. Usual price £300.

See lizziesheacelebrant.co.uk for more information

Reward 034 - Wedding Celebrant 

£600 to have a wedding ceremony so personal to you that it will be remembered for years to come. You pick the location -  in your garden, on the beach or in a licensed venue and a professional registered celebrant will write and deliver your unique ceremony including help with vow writing, commemorative script and on-hand event planning advice too. See lizziesheacelebrant.co.uk

Usually £900

Reward 036 - 20+kg of grapes for making wine

Nigel has an organic vine in his garden and wondered if anyone would like to go and pick the grapes to make wine to make their own wine.

Organic grapes sell on ebay for £19 for 9kg- buyer collects Normal price for this would be £40, available here for just £30

Reward 038 - Local crime author book series

BOXER BOYS GANGLAND CRIME SERIES - set of 4 paperback books by local crime writer's association writer Nick Ripington. 4 books in the set, two sets available

Reward 039 - Handmade wooden fort

Handmade from recycled wood, this is sure to delight a young child. The Fort can be personalised with the recipient’s name, and would make an ideal birthday or Christmas gift. Dimensions 18.5 inches square and 6.75 inches high. Currently being made, should be available November - priced at just £20!!!

Reward 040 - Adult size unused bouncy castle

This is a full size adult castle including everything needed, blowers, ground pegs. It is similar to the item in the photo below but with stripes not balloons. Apologies no more information available, item has never been opened and is on original pallet, would need collecting from Red Lodge. Contact Paul Hope [email protected] with questions. New price £1,000, offered here for £900

Reward 044 - Theatre Royal BSE Pantomime Tickets

2 tickets to this year’s Pantomime Snow White

The pantomime runs from 24th November 2023 to14th January 24. You can book tickets in band B, C or D with the voucher we will provide to you.

Reward 050 - Legionella Risk Assessment

Jordan Environmental Ltd work in the Legionella Control sector and can offer a reduced rate for a Legionella Risk Assessment of your company premises. Under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 Act, Any persons with duty of care to others, who employ 5 or people, must have a risk assessment carried out on their water systems.

 This service is offered to any business owner having a premises in or around Bury St Edmunds. Starting costs for an office block would usually be around £450-£600 depending on complexity however we can offer this service, including 2 Legionella confirmation samples for £250.00.

Who are we?

Risbygate Sports Club is a community multi-sport club in the heart of Bury St Edmunds, providing tennis, squash, padel tennis and bowls. Our aim is to increase accessibility to and participation in these sports. Those who came along to the recent open weekend and watched the club finals will have seen many of the incredible junior players we have in our coaching programme, it is hard including photos with groups of children so this is our first ever group padel coaching session which is bringing people together and increasing participation every day.

The open day this last bank holiday was a huge success for the club with lots of local families coming into the club to see what we offer

Why are we crowdfunding?

We have a vision to bring racket sports to a much wider group within our local community, we want to make tennis, padel tennis and squash something friends and families do together for fun, we want to be able to expand our existing Special Needs tennis programme and continue to grow our junior coaching work.

A project to add padel tennis courts and two new tennis courts was derailed by the energy price crisis and a reduction in membership this year during the cost of living crisis. As a club we made a hard decision to go ahead with the padel element of this plan as the only short term way to generate desperately needed new revenue but as we could not now afford the tennis element of the plan this means adding padel has come at the expense of tennis.

We now want to raise funds to enable us to deliver the second half of the original plan and expand the club's tennis facilities. Padel tennis is all about inclusivity and community engagement, we have added a new cafe to the site and are bringing people into the club who have not previously played racket sports. We want tennis and padel to take this journey hand in hand.

How we’ll spend the money raised

The money will be spent entirely on the cost of building new tennis courts. Our vision is to build two new courts and floodlight those plus the existing two courts with LED lights but this is a huge project. Our plan is to approach this in sensible, manageable phases so the club facilities improve quickly but we keep our finances secure.

Community impact

Risbygate has one of the largest junior coaching programmes of clubs in our region and a successful Special Needs coaching partnership with a local school, both of which we want to expand. 

Here is our brilliant coach Paul Hope trying to match the enthusiasm of the kids from the school in a tennis session last term ..

Equally important though we want to bring local people into the club who may previously have seen our sports as things for other people, we want to make coming to the club as a family as normal as going to the leisure centre for a swim at the weekend. We aim to do this by making all activities as affordable as possible and by making the experience social and fun, not just a court where you go by yourself

Since opening the Padel courts we are already seeing this happen with large numbers of new people and families coming into the club. We need to make sure tennis is part of this which means we need to get this new court built.

Our annual club championships bring junior and, well, less junior, players together, Erin, pictured here, is one of many nationally ranked players we are lucky to have at the club, not really a fair contest but a great weekend of tennis.

This project successfully funded on 7th November 2023