That circus makeover thing- have you seen Anneka Rice?

[craigpugh 10]

Hey Bigsteve,

 

that's amazing- before we can do the building work, we will need to empty a lot of our specialist and bulky eqipment out of the centre or it will get ruined with plater dust etc.

 

We'll get in touch in a couple of weeks as plans shape up, but thanks, really appreciate it!

 

We also need some kind of storage facility, is that something Arrow can do (or are there any other offers)

 

Thanks,

 

Craig

[p-and-d 10]

WOW i went to this project back in 1995 and was 1 of the performers. I remember chatting with anika and all the team and helping out best we could at 13 years old, Now my niece go's to the circus and loves it. Even more strange is that the greentop circus bought our old house down Grimesthorpe.

 

I may be able to offer a few days labour ( materials possibly ) please feel free to PM me some details or a time to visit

[Kombuchild 10]

Whoah, they do swinging trapeze?!! I am well up for that this weekend, who is in? My husband is scared of heights

[craigpugh 10]

Sheffield forum people have hearst of gold- So far some of the offers we have had include:

 

P-and-d possible labout and materials

bigsteve/ 'arrow removals'- transport

francesanne- asking friends in building trade for help

kev77- labour and possibly worktop

pippac- volunteering help with the project

 

Other organisations on board include-

 

Swift Realisation- project management

Youth Offending Team, Fire Service, Probabtion Service- help clearing overgrown grounds

- a company has offered to print t-shirts and tops

- another firm have offered to do some plastering

 

Tomorrow we will have a supporters pack ready to go on our website and be sent out to potential supporters.

 

Any other ideas? What are we forgetting?

[craigpugh 10]

forgot my point above- which was...

 

THANK YOU to everyone so far!!!

[craigpugh 10]

sad news, the TV company making the new episode of challenge anneka have emailed me back- the episode has finished filming (in Sheffield no less!) but ITV may have dropped it. Poor Anneka. We hope she might still pop back and support our circus makeover thing, if not though- with the support of Sheffield Forummers we shall prevail!

 

Now I promise i have remembered everything i wanted to say for now...!

[Leah-Lacie 10]

:shocked:I've seen her! She's on Come dine with me right now

[bennybilo 10]

I'm a local handy man. sounds like a challenge I would be up for. I also have friends in the trade so I'll spread the word.

I remember seeing first time round and think its a great that your doing it again.

 

Good luck Greentop!

[yogibear69 10]

Hey,

I have loads of friends in the building trade and im sure that we could get a few of us down over a weekend and help out in whatever way we can, if greentop can get hold of the materials from somewhere. Glad to see people from sheffield pulling together to help a great charity!

[bennybilo 10]

Anyone willing to donate materials? I'm willing to do the graft.

[craigpugh 10]

Thanks bennybilo, and thanks yogibear69. Things are getting moving and we have some offers of materials including some plasterboard and other bits.

 

We could really do with a new boiler so if anyone has any contacts let us know. Its the specialist tricky things like- who would put a new metal edge on the cover of our trampoline pit, or strip and reseal the sprung dance floor?

 

The supporters pack is now available and there is more info on the website http://www.greentop.org/news/thatcircusmakeoverthing

[craigpugh 10]

Oh, the other incredible news is that the architect who worked on the original conversion turned up today! He just wandered in to the building, great stuff reminiscing about the 3 days of work, we've given ourselves longer to do less this time thank goodness!