Edge Hill build on future with clubhouse
A PROJECT 25 years in the making is finally coming together in a landmark year for Edge Hill United Football Club.
A new clubhouse will take shape at Tiger Park by the end of October in time for off-season 5-a-side competition, before the club launches into the future. Edge Hill president Glen Waddingham said it was exciting to see the project come together, especially as the club celebrated 50 years.
He said it took “a lot of chook raffles” for the club to come up with $80,000 contribution towards the build.
“It’s a long time in any process for a club to try to get the funding together,” Waddingham said. “We had plans originally in 1992 so 25 years later and we’re about to turn the first soil, so we’re pretty excited.
“We certainly wouldn’t have been able to do this without council and we were successful in a $100,000 grant from the State Government and obviously some serious fundraising from the club.”
While the idea was on the table since the club first moved to their current home, it was in the club’s 10-year plan in 2009 to make sure it was done by the 50th year.
“We’ve certainly ticked a lot of boxes in that plan and our numbers have increased as a club in the past eight years consecutively, which has helped us get to where we are today,” Waddingham said.