Duffield Squash & Tennis Club
23 Town Street • Duffield, Derby • DE56 4EH
Tel: 01332 841702
Dear [[firstname]],
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Only 15 days left now to get your chimneys swept
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We are getting to the serious bit of our 7 week journey since the flood so grab yourself a glass of your favourite tipple and settle down for some serious and quiet contemplation.
Project 23 Town Street
If we are to use the opportunity to create a better future for the next generation of members at our club over the next 20 years, we have some important decisions coming up.
Change is never easy, but we need to find a way to grasp this once in a lifetime opportunity to address some aspects of the club which are currently limiting us.
The club has many strengths but also a number of weaknesses that should be addressed while we can. The club suits us as members well at the moment, but the challenge is to look into the future and decide if this is sustainable.
Some examples are :
Outside we need to evaluate what kind of sports courts best meet the needs of future members. Is it 7 tennis courts again, or where would Pickleball and/or Padel fit if suitable? Inside the clubhouse the conundrum is that we all know that the club is not meaningfully used for sport, or any other purpose, before 4.40pm each weekday and then just for 3 or 4 hours. Nobody would build a facility for that level of use as it is not financially sustainable, but the brutal fact is that we ARE about to spend maybe £700k of insurance money to build that facility if we decide to do nothing else.
The heart of the facility is and always will be Squash and Tennis. We need to be honest with ourselves and create a better and more financially sustainable club for the sake of the members for the next 20 years, which brings in greater revenue to secure Squash and Tennis for the future.
So that is the difficult question that your committees are currently trying to answer, and that is why we have been asking for your input. Nobody pretends it is easy, but we haven’t heard anybody say that we should simply rebuild what we had before.
The questions that are being evaluated are:
We also need to go through this evaluation process rather quickly so we don’t disrupt the insurance timeline too much. The team have some thoughts and provisional ideas on how we can achieve a really quick return to playing tennis and squash / racketball, AND still enable some other infrastructure changes to happen as and when they are agreed.
The team and committees are pushing to complete the first stage of analysis before Christmas. This will be the natural point to provide more detailed feedback.
As always any feedback via the Recovery Team at 23townstreetduffield@gmail.com, or to Gren or Vic directly.
Best regards,
Your Recovery Team
10/12/2023
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