The Grand Pavilion Ltd – New Future Announced

More than 50 Matlock Bath residents packed into the Community Room in the Grand Pavilion to launch “The Grand Pavilion Ltd” and its two sub-groups. Over 40 of them then joined “The Friends of The Grand Pavilion”. “The Friends….” group will raise awareness and tap the enormous support that the Grand Pavilion has in the area. It will raise money for the project by subscriptions and some events. Members will be kept informed about progress on the project.

The first event occurred immediately after the meeting when new members could see for themselves how the project would work out including a tour of some parts of the building.

The second group launched on the night, was the group; which will become the motor for getting the grant aid and later the building work done. Nick Whitehead, Dave Mowle, Charles Beresford and I, who have all seen the project through from its inception 14 months ago, joined the committee of the Matlock Bath Pavilion Group. We hope to be joined soon by at least one other member.

This is a real boost for the project. These two groups will change us from being a campaigning group to a Charity ready to take the project on to the next stage. I hope ‘The Friends….’ group will draw in hundreds of supporters and build the support we have into a solid membership; which will be a tremendous asset.

In the meantime, The Matlock Bath Pavilion Group will be the doing an enormous amount of work. It will be responsible for all the Grant applications, required to get the funding of this project off the ground. It will not be so visible but, behind the scenes will be to make this project a reality.

Gregor