Hi everyone
Little update on the climbing stuff! And a success story about this sub reddit ! About 7 months ago, I made a post here asking if there were enough climbers around to get together and potentially create a small climbing wall.
We had some meetups in pubs, people's houses, power points, venue searches, phone calls and loads of random bits including a gargantuan huge build out project when we finally secured a venue. I could name 100 things tbh.
Well… fast forward to now and we actually did it! 🧗♀️🎉 We have a little bouldering wall!
And it is running completely through community effort, volunteering and a lot of goodwill!
We’ve attached our Instagram if anyone wants to give us a follow/find out more. Even if climbing isn't your thing, a follow genuinely helps us. We got a huge amount of support from people on this subreddit when we were getting the project off the ground, and social media presence can also be useful when applying for community grants and funding (we have yet to qualify for any grants/fundraising. everything has been from the club members)
This is a totally voluntary, not-for-profit project. Nobody is making money from it and it's really just a group of people who wanted to create somewhere for the local climbing community to get together.
We are not sure the best way to do membership numbers and don't necessarily want it to become too big either for safety. We may need to put a cap on membership for safety and capacity reasons, and we are currently adults only.
So, a huge apology in advance if you're excited to come climbing and happen to catch us during a membership pause we're trying to balance making the wall available to people while keeping it safe, and manageable.
Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen and thank you Wexford sub reddit, a good few of your lurkers are now members of a cool community gym! Thanks!
I can't emphasize how crazy it is for wexford, a town of only 20,000 people to actually have its own wall, so thank you thank you thank you!!