We have a rather lovely opportunity but need money to realize it.
For those of you that have used our accommodation recently you will know that it is, to be polite, rather tired! Pragmatically it is not big enough, badly laid, out and just not as good as we would want.
We have always assumed that we would need to build a new accommodation block for our visitors, so not really looked at starting this in the near future, as a brand new accommodation block to provide the necessary minimum of 40 beds would be £400k plus! A little outside our budget at the moment. However a series of events have collided to give us a rather elegant and cost effective solution which will create 40 lovely beds for our visitors, all the bedrooms with en-suite toilets and a fully equipped self-catering area/lounge. All of this for only £60,000 and we have already raise £15,000.
Can you help raise the rest?
The downside is this will need to be achieved in the next week!
So we have 7-days to raise £45,000. Impossible task do you think?
The colliding events are, Ridgeview the house that is on the site has become vacant and would make a perfect office. So we move the office into the house, which given that the old toilets are no longer used means the entire reception block can be converted into accommodation. We have had this project costed before, but the costs where over £100k and just not worth it. However, by chance we met with a very reputable local builder who has offered to refurbish the reception block into accommodation for a fraction of other quotes we have had. As they are between jobs – their next job starts in April – so might as well be doing something and what better to be doing than supporting Longridge.
We are almost certainly looking for the impossible but wouldn’t it be great if we could get this done for this summer and take advantage of this rather unique opportunity.
If you can help or have any ideas – please give me a call on 07540 411779 or email me Amanda.foister@longridge-uk.org
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