The Management of the Dunholme Old School is applying for a Lottery Grant from the Big Lottery Fund under the Community
Buildings Programme for the Dunholme Old School.
This will be the forth time that they have submitted such an application
and, although two failed the third one to actually purchase the Old School was successful. The idea would be to turn the old
school into a community arts and learning centre.
The proposal to the lottery fund will be to build at the rear of the main
building a theatre of about 150 seats that will be tiered but able to be folded back against the back wall to give greater
floor space. This extension will also have additional rooms for lectures, meetings or storage.
Incorporated in the plan will be a lounge cum cafeteria with a larger kitchen and additional toilets.
This will certainly involve all the dramatic, music, dancing and photographic groups that could call this place their
‘home’ whereby costumes and scenery could be stored as well as a base for teaching and performing.
This is just the first stage;
if successful we just go to the next stage of selection. There can be up to four stages each requiring more details and justification
by us on why we need it. After this will come the really had work of putting it all together.
I am already contacting architects to get advice on the feasibility of building what we require in the space available.
John
Ritchie
Chairman DOSC
We have now learnt that we were unsuccessful
with our application for funding from the Big Lottery Fund. This was apparently because we did not show a strong enought case
for the need of the extra facilities.
The real reason of course is that we are midddle England and considered not to be
socially or economically disadvantaged.
We have now applied to the County Council
for a Community Grant but that is just to replace the roof on the Traning Building thats leaking like a sieve
