The club has long wanted to replace its ageing clubhouse and things may now be happening. Supporters Club chairman Chris Musson has this to say following a recent football club committee meeting -

Tuesday 29th April. "The football club will shortly be putting in a planning application to replace the existing clubhouse with a 4 year old building of broadly similar dimensions. This building is available now and is currently located in the Ribble Valley area.

Timescales are extremely tight as planning applications can take up to eight weeks and there can be no guarantee of success. Equally, the close season only lasts until, effectively, the end of July. Based on costing estimates and mindful of some available resources, the committee estimates that the funding gap is of the order of £30,000. Compared to other options we have discussed on this board, this is massively less than even the most optimistic of us thought it would be.

Clearly, we will have to assume planning permission will be agreed so that we can start to assemble resources. Remember, however, the planning process has not even started yet. To set the ball rolling, the committee has agreed to put our share of the sponsored walk, £1,500, towards the project. Equally, the four members of the Supporters' Club committee have agreed to put £500 of Supporters' Club resources towards the project.

And so to the rest. The proposal is that we offer 500 bricks at £50 each to fans, old and new, townspeople, current and ex players, indeed to anyone who has Clitheroe FC at heart. All those who buy a brick will be acknowledged in the clubhouse - the number of bricks will be immaterial. The same acknowlegement will be given for 1 as for 100. Just think, if each of our 250 regular fans could find £100, we can hopefully plan for a new clubhouse by the start of next season. I know this is a huge ask given the current economic climate, but the success of this project depends on us all - the best fans, players and town in the league.

Obviously now is the close season. The next 4-6 weeks will be crucial. Please dig deep, tell people who don't go on the website and let's make this a reality. Cheers, Chris."

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