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Weʼve raised £1,170 to build a BMX Pumptrack for the children and community of Coleford, Somerset. The total bill is going to be about £34000 but all will help.
- Coleford, United Kingdom
- Funded on Wednesday, 13th September 2017
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Coleford is a village in the Somerset Mendips with few facilities for children but a great community spirit. We are desperate as a community to provide a facility that will allow our children of all ages, to come together under the banner of a healthy sport in the form of a BMX Pump Track to occupy and amuse, to allow our children to invite children of other villages to share ideas, friendships and comradery and involve the parents of those children too, to promote family and social cohesion.
... The problem, inevitably, is Money!
The pump-track is going to cost about £34,000. We don't have that; ... so far we the Parish Council, which is 100% behind the Pump-Track, have just over £10,000.
The village is starting to mobilise and organise the birth of our very own Pump-track.
We are in the process of looking for grants but the more we can show involvement of our own community in the effort by raising some money ourselves, the more likely we are to have success.
Therefore I have elected to make a sponsored free fall sky dive for my village, for the children of our village and our ‘Pump-track to be’.
In case you are wondering, I am 68, (very nearly 69), this will be the first time I have done this, I shall be jumping from 13000 feet and the due date, weather permitting, is 5th August.
.... Please donate to our (my) cause, the parents and children of Coleford will be eternally grateful. .... Thanks from everyone in Coleford.
PS. There will be other things going on in the Village too, so watch this space.
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- 7 years ago
Charles Gurd
7 years agoCharles Gurd Hi Everyone, thanks so much for supporting this project with your donations .. and to those who donated anonymously, I am sorry I wasn't able to thank you personally but without knowing who you were it wasn't possible, so thank you anyway, we are slowly moving forward, we have completed phase 1 a new entrance to the playing field to allow closer access, the local council have kindly agreed to soak up; we nearly have all the quotes and drawings in, then it will be away to the planners .. I will let you know how it goes THANKS again
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- 7 years ago
Charles Gurd
7 years agoHi all you lovely supporters ... here is what happened on the day ... thanks so much on behalf of me, but more so on behalf of the Children / young adults of Coleford, we will make it happen ... best regards ... Tony Gurd
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- 7 years ago
Charles Gurd
7 years agoHi Everyone ... what a brilliant experience ... we had to wait quite some time due to weather and when we were coming down we were getting blown backwards for the last 1500 feet which meant that when we landed we were towed across the field until the instructor could completely collapse the shute ... but the free falling was just the best ... I know the reason for the jump was the children of coleford but it did make an old man happy!! ... thank you for sponsoring Colefords Pump Track, it will be brilliant I know it will ... thanks again, Tonyx
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31
Anonymous
Sep 8, 2017
£10.00
Anthony Andrews
Aug 13, 2017
Well done!!
£10.00
Anonymous
Aug 9, 2017
A great cause for the village!
Matthew Whall
Aug 7, 2017
Well done Uncle Anthony - great cause.
£20.00
Anonymous
Aug 6, 2017
£10.00
Nat
Aug 5, 2017
Go Tony! Thanks so much for supporting our community x
Nicola Phillips
Aug 5, 2017
Good luck Tony for this good cause wish you all the best. Trev Wilkins and family.
£20.00
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Charles Gurd
Coleford, United Kingdom
I am 68, (soon to be 69), I am a retired sea-farer, father of two great children and grandad to 4 lovely Grand-children. Other than that there is little else to say really, except, I am really passionate about this cause, it will make such a difference to young lives.