Cricket club’s pavilion revamp continues apace in Potton thanks to grant from developer

Potton Cricket Club members Andrew Bage, Steve Highland and Rob Bage, with Kier managing director Nick Moore. (Image: Archant)

Potton Town Cricket Club has already expanded its pavilion and has new changing rooms, a members’ bar and gym.

Now house builder Kier Living Eastern - which is building a new development nearby - has donated £500 to the club to continue with the revamp.

The firm’s managing director, Nick Moore, took a tour of the new facilities at the Hollow cricket ground near Biggleswade last week.

He said: “We are delighted to have been able to give this donation to Potton Town Cricket Club.

“The new facilities at the ground are excellent and we are thrilled we have been able to help with their future work.”

The club’s chairman Steve Highland added: “We have done a lot of work expanding the pavilion and this money will help us to continue this important work for the club and to ensure its future.”

The club’s revamped pavilion opened on May 22 last year.

To mark the occasion a team made up of PTCC club members involved in the development of the pavilion, played a Beds Cricket invitational XI.

The redevelopment was supported by the Hutchinson family and the Potton Charitable Trust whose endowment of The Hollow and much of its infrastructure has allowed the club to continue expanding.

Other donors to the development, included Sport England, ECB, Potton Consolidated Charity, Central Bedfordshire Council and Wixam Tree Trust.

The pavilion aims to serve as a landmark facility for the town.

As well as hosting cricket, it has two resident businesses, The Barns Fitness Studio and The Boundary Café.

The first team plays in the Bedfordshire County Cricket League - Premier Division and the

Hertfordshire Cricket League - Division Two B.

For more information about the club, visit http://pottontown.play-cricket.com.