From APHAx to Apex – the final bid goes in

Three members of the APHAx (Audlem Public Hall Annexe) committee travelled to Apex House (the HQ of the Big Lottery Fund) in Edgbaston on Wednesday to hand in the final part (Stage 3) of the application for Big Lottery Funding.

The pictures show the team presenting the documents to Sarah Devlin of the Big Lottery Fund.

The final submission comprises two big A4 binders with voluminous documentation as well as the actual application form itself.

We reckon that the three stages combined come to nearly 40,000 words of text plus at least another 10,000 words in the studies, surveys and plans which accompany them. Then there must be about fifty pictures, and if each picture is worth a thousand words, we are up to the equivalent of 100,000 words. Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is just over 100,000 words, but we hope that ours, unlike hers, does not turn out to be a work of fiction.

If all goes well and the bid is accepted (and we have received some very positive vibes from the BLF), then the project will go out to tender early in the New Year, with a view to construction starting in Spring 2016 for completion in March 2017 and a grand opening soon afterwards.

To date we have received commitments for about £80,000 of the £100,000 match funding which we need to contribute towards the total project cost of just over £700,000.

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