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This is a copy of a newsletter published by the Wharf Marple CIC on 30 December 2022:
30 December 2022: Happy New Year to all our fantastic Investors!
Dear Friends and Investors,
We hope you are all well and enjoyed the Christmas Festivities.
It has been a momentous year for The Wharf Marple CIC. Thanks to you, our fantastic Investors, we have achieved our ambition to take ownership of the Wharf warehouse. In addition the COF funding that we secured during the year meant that we have been able to start the building work. These are tremendous achievements and we would like to express our thanks to everyone involved in making this happen.
Building update
Those of you who live in Marple will have seen that work has started on the renovations of our Warehouse building. There have been the inevitable delays to starting due to waiting on permissions to start etc but our Contractor, Viking Build, Matt Skirvin and his team have been skilfully working round this and getting on with other parts not requiring permissions.
The building is really starting to take shape now and with a bit of imagination we can see what a fantastic space it will be.
Wharf Watch and new corporate sponsors
We will launch ‘Wharf Watch’ in the new year which will be your go to place to keep up to date with the building works and get to know all the people involved in the works. We are very pleased to announce that a local Marple company, Techni Heat, (www.techniheat.co.uk) has generously agreed to sponsor Wharf Watch. Rich TV and Coolbox are Wharf Watch’s media partners and have also donated much of their time and expertise to create the films that you will be seeing over the next 12 months. A big thank you to all Wharf Watch’s sponsors.
You can view a short film showing the work that has been done to date below and in future visit www.thewharfmarple.co.uk to view the regular film updates.
INVESTMENT FUNDING UPDATE
The Community Investment Scheme will remain open until we have raised the full amount needed to buy, renovate and fit out. As the project is so visibly on its way more supporters are coming forward to invest in the Wharf Marple Project.
In the new year our grant funding work will continue and we hope to be successful in a bid to HLF in the next 6 months.
In the meantime we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy New Year!
The Wharf Marple CIC Board
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This is a copy of a newsletter published by the Wharf Marple CIC on 20 July 2022:
The Wharf Warehouse is finally ours!
Dear Friends and Investors
Congratulations! The Wharf Warehouse is ours at long last!
Today, we are absolutely delighted to inform you all, our fantastic Investors, that after so many months of tough, tortuous and laborious negotiations we are now the proud owners of The Wharf Warehouse!
Your team, led by Wharf Director Malcolm Allan, have worked tirelessly to secure the best contract terms and ensure best value for our investment going forward. Conveyancing is never a quick and easy process and that has proved to be doubly so when buying a Listed building with four sets of organisations involved. All’s well that ends well though and we are now raring to go with the renovations. Exciting times ahead!
CELEBRATION FIZZ INVITATION.
We will shortly send out an invitation to join us in celebration of achieving our long worked for dream of saving this iconic heritage building for our community. This will likely be either August or September dependent on the availability of a local venue.
VOLUNTEERS
Your investment together with the COF, HLF and McNair Trust grant funding we’ve secured, is why we’ve been able to buy the Warehouse building and now we’ll start the first construction phase of the renovations. If you have volunteered to help you will soon receive an invitation to attend our first volunteer working group meeting. If you’d like to volunteer please contact our Heritage Director, Bob Humphrey Taylor on info@thewharfmarple.co.uk.
INVESTMENT FUNDING UPDATE
The Community Investment Scheme will remain open until we have raised the full amount needed to totally renovate and fit out.
See the link at the end of this notice for the direct link to our investors page on the website.
Supporters are continuing to come forward to invest in the Wharf Marple Project. The running total so far is a fantastic £200,000! This is exclusive of our grant funding awards from HLF, McNair Trust, the fundraising activities and COF and clear evidence of community support that is so vital for securing further grant funding we need to complete all the renovations and fit out.
Next steps – we are applying for the final grant funding from HLF to create the Heritage Centre as well as Sport England and other funding bodies.
We’re looking forward to seeing you soon.
Yours happily
The Wharf Marple CIC Board
About The Wharf Marple CIC
The Wharf Marple Community Interest Company (CIC), is a social enterprise committed to acquiring, renovating and bringing back into use the well- known former canal side warehouse for the Marple community. The CIC operates the Community Investment Scheme to raise funds for the Project.
Further information
Contact Susan Ingham 07900935 835
info@thewharfmarple.co.uk
www.thewharfmarple.co.uk
Facebook: @projectTWM Twitter: #Wharfmarple
About The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Using money raised by the National Lottery, we Inspire, lead and resource the UK’s heritage to create positive and lasting change for people and communities, now and in the future. www.heritagefund.org.uk
Follow @HeritageFundUK on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and use #NationalLotteryHeritageFund
About the COF Fund.
The Community Ownership Fund is a Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities scheme providing match funding to social enterprises to enable communities to retain or take ownership of community buildings.
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This is a copy of a newsletter published by the Wharf Marple CIC on 13 April 2022:
Happy Easter to all our fantastic supporters!
Dear Friends and Investors,
We hope you are all well and are looking forward to the Easter holidays.
SALE UPDATE
As we are now into Spring we’d like to bring you all up to date with where we are on the purchase of the Wharf Warehouse. We appreciate how patient you have all been during this period and we want to reassure you all that it there is progress, the sale is going ahead, we’re almost there, but it is slow going.
As you know we had expected to have taken ownership of the end of the 2021 and we were very disappointed that this did not happen. For the last three months the Team have continued to work hard towards completing the sale. We said this last time, but it bears repeating that this really has been a very laborious and extremely frustrating process. It has been complicated by the number of parties involved in agreeing and drawing up the sale contract.
Despite your Wharf Marple Directors and our Legal team being ready willing and able to transact the business for many months, issues with the contract between the other parties have continued such that proceedings slowed down again. Added to which COVID struck their Legal teams which have impacted on their ability to progress and resulted in more delays.
That said we are very close now to completion and our Legal team continue to work diligently ensuring that our interests are protected at every level and they continue to push for that completion date.
You’ll be the first to know when we have that date.
OTHER ACTIVITY
Meanwhile we have not been idle and have continued working on a number of projects as follows:
FINGER DOCK INVESTIGATION.
You’ve probably noticed some activity at The Wharf recently and maybe wondered what was going on.
As part of the normal conveyancing process the Wharf building has been surveyed to determine the structural integrity and we are pleased to report that, it won’t fall down any time soon. The building is deemed to be structurally sound. We also wanted to be sure that the parts of the building below the water line, principally the finger dock, were also sound and so we initiated a further investigation which has required that it be drained. Our structural engineers together with CRT Engineer have examined the walls below the water line and reported some minor issues with the pointing and missing/subsided stones. None of which they agreed would impact on the structural integrity of the building. These works will involve draining and dredging of the dock in order to get to the site to repair the walls. Our engineers are working with CRT Development partners planning the scale of the works best placed to provide the most cost effective solution. This will be agreed ahead of completing the sale.
HLF PROJECT.
The team have successfully delivered the activities funded by HLF 10k grant award. This has cemented our good working relationship with HLF and the outcomes achieved will all contribute to and inform the next HLF funding application. The work has started on the next fund application which we expect to submit in summer this year.
INVESTMENT FUNDING UPDATE
The Community Investment Scheme will remain open until we have raised the full amount needed to buy, renovate and fit out. Supporters are continuing to come forward to invest in the Wharf Marple Project. The running total so far is a fantastic £200,000! This is exclusive of our grant funding awards from HLF, McNair Trust and the fundraising activities and now, from COF. A big THANK YOU to all our Investors. The extraordinary level of investment we’ve achieved to date not only enables us to take ownership of the Warehouse but is also clear evidence of community support that is so vital for securing grant funding, such as the COF award, Next steps will be to apply to HLF and Sport England for the remaining funds to complete the fit out and we expect, all being well, to be open for business this time next year.
In the meantime we wish you all a very Happy Easter
The Wharf Marple CIC Board
About The Wharf Marple CIC
The Wharf Marple Community Interest Company (CIC), is a social enterprise committed to acquiring, renovating and bringing back into use the well- known former canal side warehouse for the Marple community. The CIC operates the Community Investment Scheme to raise funds for the Project.
Further information
info@thewharfmarple.co.uk
www.thewharfmarple.co.uk
Facebook: @projectTWM
Twitter: #Wharfmarple
Malcolm Allan:
I think this question refers to the old toll office and the two cottages on that side of the canal. Indeed all are still owned by the CRT. The two houses were originally for canal employees and then CRT employees. I believe they are now rented out with CRT as the landlord as it were. They have never been part of CRTs development plans for this area and were recently rennovated I believe as residential properties. None are any part of our project, but the grassed area behind the cottages will be part of our land, up to the bridge.
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--- Quote from: royal_marple on November 01, 2021, 10:21:58 PM ---Is the new "Marple Welcome Centre" part of this development? There seems to be two homes both below and attached to the buildings. Do people live in them or will they be redeveloped?
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I believe those buildings are in the hands of CRT still and not part of the Wharf Marple Project, which is just the Marple Wharf building.
Cllr @Malcolm Allan is on the project team and may be able to tell us more about that and confirm if my understanding is correct.
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