Check out the plans!

We recently revealed our plans at the recent Community Engagement Day held at the club on September 13th. If you haven't seen these already then please download a copy here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35826381/YSCFacilitiesProject_ThePlan_September2015.pdf

Put your sun hats away and get out your thinking caps

South East Elevation

As the summer cracks the flags, the YSC new facilities project team push on!

The council have provided a response to the Heads of Terms regarding the lease, this is a significant step and means we are getting closer to our goal of completing the lease negotiations.

John has been back to the drawing board and update the plans prior to planning submission in September. You can see the latest plans by clicking here

Glenis is pulling together the stakeholder lists as part of her work in engaging the community which is planned to be held at the club on September 13th 11am until 1pm.

Bob and Catherine are preparing to table a funding meeting at the club on September 2nd at 7.30 PM, if you have any money spinning ideas, then come along (let me know if you are planning on it, so I know how many biscuits to get).

I have been recording videos of members recalling how they get into sailing, looking at the progress above this seems like easy work, but it's very helpful in inspiring others to back our cause.

As ever if you have any questions, please contact me at project@yeadonsailingclub.co.uk

Tim B

New Facilities Update From The Building Team

We had a great meeting at the club tonight to talk about the building timeline for our new clubhouse including planning, contracting, knock down and build. This may look very rough, but this is the start of our grand plan. Already started mapping it to Zoho Projects!

Loads to do, but looking good. Thank you Tony and John!

New Facilities Project Update

A brief update to the New Facilities Project.


To help with community engagement we will be holding a New Club Facilities Open Day on the Sunday 13th September 11am until 1pm. 

Please encourage members of the community to signup for the event at the following address:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yeadon-sailing-club-new-facilities-plans-unveiling-community-open-day-tickets-17783368534

YSC members are also welcome to come along and help out.

Bob and Catherine are carrying on the good work looking into funding.

Leonie is working hard on the lease with Howard and Andrew, plus we are also reviewing our CASC status for the project.

John has been doing some great work looking at the plans for the new club house, you will see from this image that considerable effort has been made to visualize the future building.

If you have any questions or feel as though you can help in any way towards our vision, then please email project@yeadonsailingclub.co.uk

Facing Facts - Why we need a new Club House and how we plan to achieve it

A few years ago we started to think seriously about our the future of our club house. We explored various options to see how we could upgrade our facilities. The decision was made to build a new club house on the space we have today. A more solid and secure building, with better access and updated facilities.

To explain the what why and how, we have assembled this useful document about facing the facts of a new building project.

Link: Facing Facts - YSC New Facilities Project >

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Please support our plans for a new club house with an endorsement!

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Please help us with a statement of endorsement that we can use in our promotional materials supporting our plans for redevelopment.

If we have inspired you, helped you or made a positive impact that you think the world should know about, then please take a few moments to provide us with a statement of endorsement.

We need your help in upgrading our clubs facilities so we can continue to provide training, racing and social sailing to the Leeds and Bradford area.

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Notes from our Funding Meeting

YSC Funding team members held a meeting with representatives from Green Leeds and Leeds County Council regarding funding advice for supporting our build project.

They are extremely knowledgeable in this area having overseen a number of funding applications. They gave Catherine, Bob and myself some excellent advice on how to proceed and information to seek, and we thank her for her time.

Their key message was that in order to have success with applications, YSC needs to be in a strong position to demonstrate community involvement. YSC has been at the heart of the community for a very long time, and is very much part of the community supporting the Tarn Users Forum working closely with other groups to ensure the high standards of maintenance and access to the park and the water.

We will be looking at how we can strengthen our community message, if readers of this blog can suggest any suitable clubs or groups that we can speak to, over and above our current engagement then please email the project team at project@yeadonsailingclub.co.uk

Once again, thank you for giving up their time to meet with us.