The Park Community Hub Internal Facilities

Aim: Transforming one of the oldest Cricket Clubs in North Wales into a modern, accessible and inclusive community hub for the local community.

Why are we crowdfunding?

Gwersyllt Park Cricket Club has grown in importance as part of the local community. We now have over 700 members who attend our club to socialise throughout the year. The cricket opportunities for so many of our local community has increased dramatically over the past 10 years. In addition to our main adult Saturday teams, we now have a disabled cricket squad (the centre of disabled cricket in the Wrexham area), a female cricket team and youth cricket teams across the 4 key age ranges (U9s, 11s, 13s and 15s), as well as a new Sunday 3XI team. Working with our strategic partners Cricket Wales, the ECB, Active Wrexham, Wrexham County Borough Council, we will be significantly increasing our sporting offer to provide more opportunities for women and girls across the local area.

We are undertaking this fundraising endeavour to deliver a combined Community Hub and new, state-of-the-art cricket pavilion, to deliver a wide-range of benefits to our local residents in social, wellness and sporting terms.

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. Purchase an engraved brick tile. You have the opportunity to leave a permanent mark within our new facilities.

3. 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.

4. 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!

How we’ll spend the money raised

As you are aware, work has commenced on our new Community Hub and cricket pavilion and your previous efforts got us off the ground with enough money to complete the facility. This time we are focussing on delivering the services for the community by fundraising for some of the internals we had to value engineer out of the original design due to increased inflation.

Specifically, we are looking to raise money for a digital IT conference suite which we will use to run courses for local residents such as digital, numeracy, first aid and wellbeing. This facility will also be used by local businesses and charities as a meeting space and networking hub; therefore, these facilities will be crucial in delivering all of the above services.

The second element of these funds will be used to procure the changing room furniture for the teams, and install a kitchen into the facility to provide catering services to local residents. This kitchen area will also be used to host GPCC's various cricket teams, as well as their opponents during matches, whilst also being used to host national matches to increase the exposure of the club, local area and Wrexham.

Community impact - Reminder!!!

1. Accessible Cricket Facilities.

2. Inclusive Cricket Facilities.

3. Safe and Secure Cricket Facilities.

4. Sustainable Cricket Facilities.

5. Growing the Game in the Community.

6. Increased Physical Activity in the Community.

7. Making a visible impact in the Community.