Three items of news for your information.

Planning Application - I am pleased to report that the Club has submitted another planning application for the erection of dressing rooms adjacent to our Somerset County League pitch at the Grove. We have worked very closely with a local architect and put revised plans together which will hopefully address the reasons for the rejection of our previous unsuccessful application. As with all planning applications, it will be approximately 2 months before we get a decision from the local planning authority and I will of course keep you all updated of any developments.

New Goal Posts and Nets - Replacement of the existing goal posts and nets used for our WSM & District League pitches has been long overdue and I am pleased to report that new ones have been ordered from a specialist supplier. These will resemble the 'box net' style currently used for our Somerset County pitch and will be a vast improvement. We hope to have the new posts in place over the next few weeks - there will be some ground work necessary before they can be erected.

NUFC 'Night at the Races' Fundraiser - As previously advised, our next fund raising/social evening will take place at the Grove Sports Centre on the evening of Saturday, 5th March 2005. I hope that once again I can rely on you all to support the evening enthusiatically as you have done with the Club's two Karaoke/Disco evenings and please ask friends and family to come along. We already have sponsors for all of the races and as some of you will testify, Barry is looking to sell horse ownership for £3.00 each. If any of you can 'buy' a horse that would be great and maybe even sell to people outside of the Club. I am sure the evening will be another financial and social success so please make every effort to get along.

Cheers

Spence