Keyworth United Clubhouse gets Green Light!
Keyworth United Community Football Club is to benefit from a new clubhouse thanks to a grant
of up to £514,460 from the Football Foundation.
A delighted club
President, Allan Cook said: "This is fantastic news for the football club and the whole community of Keyworth. Not only
will it kick start our football development plan, which will see us running more teams, it will provide a new facility for
people of Keyworth to use. We are extremely grateful to the Football Foundation and all our funding partners, for helping
turn our dream into reality."
Funded by the Premier League, The Football
Association and Government, the Football Foundation is the country's largest sports charity with a £40m budget going
straight into the heart of football. Keyworth United Community FC was previously awarded two grants worth £800 towards
new football strips and equipment through the Foundation's Junior Kit Scheme.
Keyworth United Community Football Club is a FA Charter Standard Community Club and one of the oldest and largest
football Clubs in Nottinghamshire, having celebrated its centenary in 2004.
The
project will provide a new pavilion to service the club's existing Foundation funded pitches. The new changing facilities
are desperately needed in order to meet the demand from existing teams and to accommodate new girls and boys teams. The new
building will house six team changing rooms with toilets and showers and two officials changing rooms with en-suite facilities.
The social side of the building will see separate, male, female and wheelchair accessible toilets, along with a large club
room and kitchen with external servery.
Paul Thorogood, Chief Executive
of the Football Foundation said: "We warmly congratulate Keyworth United Community FC and the Nottinghamshire County
FA for their hard work and dedication in securing this award."
"Sport
is playing a central role in helping people to stay fit, strengthen communities and promote responsibility amongst young people.
This new project in Nottinghamshire is but one example of thousands across the country that the Football Foundation is supporting
with money provided by our funding partners - the Premier League, The FA and Government."
The grant is part of an overall funding package totaling up to £765,000, with other contributions coming from
Biffa; Wren; Notts County Council; Rushcliffe Borough Council; East Midlands Airport; Keyworth Parish Council and Sport England
Community Sport Fund. Work on the new building will start later this month and is expected to be completed by the start of
next season.
14th January 2010
