Duffield Squash & Tennis Club
23 Town Street • Duffield, Derby • DE56 4EH
Tel: 01332 841702
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A brief summary as it’s nearly Christmas and the end of the year.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to the Duffield Recovery Team. So many members have supported the recovery efforts in so many different ways since 3pm on 20th October, and this work will continue probably right through 2024. Many members have asked who are the Duffield Recovery Team, and there is always a risk in naming names because it is not a simple list and it won’t include everyone who has contributed. The reality is that it has been an ever changing team based on specific activities, but it does seem appropriate to try and say thank you to those perhaps most involved.
The immediate flood recovery team – Fin Stott, Ollie Storr, James Grindell, Alison Knibbs, Bob, Gren, Vic, Sally, Lesley, Adrian, Andy Page, Nigel Williams
Then some more joined to help pull together and assess the ideas to create a better future for “23 Town Street” – Ian Thompson, Mark Rees, Rob Gosling, Jen Smith, Ollie Lowe, Robin Hutchison
We have said on a few occasions that we are unashamedly using the flood as a positive once in a lifetime opportunity to financially safeguard the future of our club to become stronger and better for generations to come. We will keep the aspects that were already good, and make changes to the bits that members have fed back as needing improvment. The output of the initial 23 Town Street information gathering has resulted in the creation of an architects brief that aims to work out if there is a better way of spending the insurance money other than simply recreating a photocopy of what we had before.
The initial architects brief of what to try and change created from the member’s feedback is as follows:
These need to complement the primary focus of the club to deliver excellent Squash and Tennis and hence make the club more attractive to a wider demographic and be better prepared for the future.
We hope to have some initial feasibility concepts back in mid-January which will then need to be considered for financial and operational feasibility.
Future flood mitigation
Timelines
A frequently asked question is when will everything be fully operational again ? Unfortunately it is very hard to give firm dates when there is so much activity that sits with the insurers and third party contractors, and is therefore out of our direct control. So please take these dates as targets and subject to change as work progresses :
Update email just once a week
We hope you have found these twice weekly updates interesting and informative in the 8 weeks since the flood. However now that we have got over the initial frenetic activity, we feel that an email just once a week should allow us to keep them interesting and fresh. Now that you know who has been involved on the Duffield Recovery Team then you can always ask them any other questions that arise.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and healthy New Year.
Your Duffield Recovery Team
20/12/2023
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