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.