CLUB RISES FROM ASHES AND LOOKS TO FUTURE

RACING Club Warwick has “risen like a phoenix from the ashes”, according to a member of the new management committee set up to save the club.

For the past 18 months the club, in Hampton Road, has been riddled with problems that meant its future was hanging in the balance.

But fresh hope has been given after Warwick District Council and Warwick Town Council have been working together to help.

A management committee team made up of 12 people has also been set up and includes Mayor of Warwick Cllr Mike Kinson, Councillor Linda Bromley and chairman of the previous committee Andi Feasey.

Cllr Bromley (Con, Warwick West) said: “Racing Club Warwick has risen like a phoenix from the ashes of the previous organisation since Warwick Town Council came to the rescue of this vital community-based facility.”

The club is now renting changing rooms that have been bought by the town council and has offered a home to the 3rd Warwick Scouts.

They are also offering activities such as boxing, bingo, darts and football and are hoping to set up a youth club too.

Andi Feasey took over as chairman of the previous committee in July last year and has also become a member of the management committee.

He said: “Before Christmas whether the club was staying open was being decided on a week-by-week basis, but now we have the town and district council to help us.

“We have increased bookings, which generates revenue, so things are really starting to look up.

“I can’t see us going backwards now, we’re all pushing in the same direction and that’s to only go forward.

“We’ve got a club AGM meeting on July 11 and we’ll decide from there how to carry on taking the club forward.”

To make a booking at the club’s function room call 01926 491849 after 6.30pm.

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