‘Funding will help us to engage people of all ages with football’
LEEK Town been awarded funding from the Trident Community Fund (TCF) after a successful application.
The funding will enable Leek Town to kick-off a new ‘vibrant, scalable and long-term sustainable’ community programme.
Chairman Jon Eeles said: “This will be focused around our new 3G facility which has been co-funded by the Football Foundation, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council and the Club.
“The programme will further embed the club within the local community and seek to engage a significant number of new people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds with football.
“We are delighted to have been successful in application to the Trident Community Foundation.” In addition to Leek’s success three other clubs have been successful in this round of funding - Clitheroe, South Shields and Marske United.
Clitheroe will use their grant to support a new men’s health project, Clitheroe Lads United. It is designed as an opportunity for men to get together to maintain and improve physical and mental well-being, avoid social isolation and form friendships and community spirit.
The focus of South Shields’ project will be to develop girls and women’s football and will be used to provide the best possible opportunities and pathways for all young people in the community.
Marske United will use their funding to introduce more youngsters to football and build a youth infrastructure via summer schools. The funds will allow them to build on their activities with the Middlesbrough FC Foundation, who have been supporting over sixty each week to play football.
This is the second phase of TCF funding, with six Northern Premier League clubs successful in the first round of applications.
The fund enables clubs to apply for up to £5,000 for community projects via the Trident Community Foundation, set up last summer as a joint project between the three Trident leagues and title sponsor Pitching In.