The FA CHARTER STANDARD for CLUBS

Vereen Marcer

Angela McInally

Chris Tomlinson

Marie Perry - Football Rep

Buxton And Lammas Area Youth was formed at a meeting in the Black Lion on 28th January 1992. David Rust Andrews was our original Chair-person and many of the committee are originals and after many set-backs and rejected plans and land purchases we now have a superb 11 acre field and are very determined to see this project to the end. The Parish council has been extremely supportive and the BALAY committee greatly appreciate all their help for this much needed project.

The idea of the hall is to offer the youths of Buxton, Lammas and surrounding villages a place of their own. The hall will comprise of a main hall suitable for sports and disco's and other functions, it will also have smaller halls around it, each for Scouting and Guiding events and Youth club drop in centre, storage for equipment (tents, camping gear, boats etc.), changing facilities for Youth football with showers - Kitchens, Office facilities all to suit both able and disabled alike, football pitches, recreation area.

How many times have one of you seen youngsters messing about on the streets and said 'can't they find something better to do' well, at present in Buxton, NO THEY probably cannot. Give them this hall and they will want to be involved and so respect it and get the most out of it - they want more of a drop in centre where they can get refreshments and just chat. It is important to the scouting groups as they do not have a village meeting place, the guiding groups are restricted by what they can do in the school hall and when. Our fund-raising events are always reduced by hire of venues- we will be able to keep it running by using our own venue.

We are committed to the hundreds of young people in our villages who need somewhere of their own. We are very lucky to have thriving Scout and Guide groups and Youth Football Clubs, but we want to offer so much more to all our young people.

We now have charity status which means we can apply for many grants and the wheels are in motion to do this.

What is very clear is we cannot do this without the villages support - remember that the youths of today are tomorrow's world, so if you can help or have any questions or suggestions please don't hesitate to contact us. Can we appeal to anyone who could find some time to help us - if not as part of the committee then perhaps with letter writing/publicity/artwork or anything else - we are all in full time work with families and time is of the essence so PLEASE if you only can spare a few hours we would be grateful.