THIS NEWSLETTER CONTAINS VITAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE CLOSURE OF THE CLUB. 

 PLEASE READ

FIRST – THE CLUB WILL BE CLOSED ON WEDNESDAY 8^TH DECEMBER 2010.  THIS IS TO ALLOW STAFF TO BE BROUGHT UP TO DATE ABOUT OUR MOVE

 

SECOND, THE CLUB WILL CLOSE ON 17^TH DECEMBER 2010 FOLLOWING OUR OPEN DAY.

 There will be an Open Day at the Club on Friday 17^th December 2010 from 2 – 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

 

For the past five years, the Club has been planning to build a completely new Club on this site.  We have been delayed constantly by the Planning Department of the London Borough of Hackney who had other plans for the site, and it was only in May 2008 that planning consent was finally won.

 

The Club has sold the site to developers with the condition that a completely new club will be built on a lower ground and ground floor and there will be private residential flats above

 

THE NEW CLUB THAT WILL BE BUILT ON THIS SITE 

 

The new Club is superb.  It will have a lower ground sports hall which will be four times the size of our present gymnasium and will enable us to cater for all sports.  There will also be changing facilities for both sexes and it will be completely disability friendly.  There will be a “social hub” which will be the equivalent of our Games Room and canteen. There will be no outside training area.

 

THE TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION 

 

To enable all this work to be done, it is obvious that the Club will have to vacate the present building but the good news is that we have found alternative accommodation in the premises of the old London City Mission at 12/14 Penn Street which is about 500 yards away

 

The temporary premises will give us two large halls (although not as big as our own games room and gymnasium )with a small canteen area. We will be able to provide hot showers and changing rooms.

 

There is no doubt that we will not be able to provide exactly the same activities as at present but the present timetable will be kept to as much as possible.  Academic classes will take place, but football training will have to take place elsewhere:  we will have more definite news about this nearer the move.

 

All the football managers will be continuing with their match schedules and it is important that the managers are kept fully up to date about the attendance of the team members.  You no doubt have the mobile telephone number of your son’s football team manager, so please keep in touch.

 

Unfortunately, boxing will have to be restricted to some extent, although it is planned for much of the boxing training to continue as normal.

 

Table Tennis will also be able to continue much as normal.

 

The premises are being refurbished at the present and it is anticipated that we will move into our new premises around the beginning of February.

 

FURTHER NEWS

 

We will be issuing another newsletter nearer to the time of closure which we hope will give you the exact date of our opening in Penn Street.

So, have a great holiday and we wish you all a happy new year and we will see you all again in February.

 

Best wishes

 

Franklin and all the staff at Crown and Manor