The estimate for the widening alone has come in at £10.5k and it will be a few more bob to pay for the road markings!
Until now we have been able to keep costs down by using our own labour, but anyone working on the public highway has to be properly insured and accredited so we'll have to pay the professionals.
Chairman Stu Murray and board member Alan Hodgson are working hard at finding a solution.
Stu says: "This is our number one priority because we can't keep feeding hundreds of kids in a tent in the winter! We appreciate that the entrance could do with being a little bit wider but you are never quite prepared for the cost of these things."
Our former scrum half Phil Harvey, now the RFU's Teesside Regional Development Officer, was at Brinkburn last night and is looking into ways in which the RFU might be able to assist.