£50,000 grant boost for sports club

CHANGING and showering rooms at Culcheth Sports Club are to be given a major upgrade thanks to a Biffa Award grant of almost £50,000.
The project will provide four completely refurbished changing rooms for teams, two officials’ changing rooms and two showering facilities, along with a new heating system.
The work will bring the facility up to Football Association National Step 7 requirements.
Biffa Awards are a a multi million pound fund that helps to build communities and transform lives through awarding grants to community and environmental projects across the UK as part of the Landfill Communities Fund
A club spokesman said: “The current facilities are not adequate to meet modern standards and without this grant from Biffa Awards the club would have struggled to maintain the current level of participation. With this development we aim to increase club membership and sports participation in the surrounding area.”
Stuart Nightingale, chairman of the Football Club, who play Cheshire County football, said: “This grant will enable us to continue our work to grow the club, In the past year we have increased the number of teams
using the facility from five to seven with two youth teams having joined the club this year.”
Gillian French, head of grants, Biffa Award said: “Transforming the changing rooms at Culcheth Sports Club will hopefully help to increase membership, and engagement in sport. Projects such as this are an excellent example of how the Landfill Communities Fund can help to create outstanding facilities for the community.”
Work will start on the development this month and be completed by August.
Over the past year, Culcheth Sports Club has won grants £80,000 to help develop the club, including £10,000 from the Premier League and FA Facilities Fund.
Among new facilities the money has provided is a new tractor, with multiple attachments, to improve ground maintenance