Some more excellent news received today. We have been successful in our application for funding through West Sussex County Council Members’ Big Society Fund for support with our club house of £25,000.
Thankyou to all involved, especially Sophia Wilks and to Councillor Debbie Kennard for her support in the application.
With the many applications we have submitted for our club house campaign, one of the key things we have highlighted is the growth of the club over the past few years. What we hadn’t done is tracked the full growth as we knew we were adding at least one new squad every year.
Mark has provided the registration figures since he took on the role and it shows we have over a 79% growth in the youth section alone over 3 seasons. Adding the senior figures in, the club growth as a whole is at over 60%.
Chatting with other clubs, the growth we are seeing is unprecedented but, we expect to continue growing year on year with the hope that in a few years our youth teams will naturally feed into the senior squad. It’s only 4 years until that could be a reality.
With our club now consisting of over 200 playing members, sharing the small facilities and 2 changing rooms we have access to this really does show the urgency for the club house.
Next season we will have at least 2 senior teams and 3 youth teams playing competitive rugby and hopefully not competing for changing rooms but using our new facilities.