# Kettering Town FC saved by crowdfunding campaign

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/10/14/kettering-town-fc-saved-crowdfunding-campaign/
- Published: 2013-10-14T14:48:46+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The fans of football club Kettering Town’ have turned to online crowdfunding to 
raise the money that will save the club from closure.

The club has debts of £58,000, so the fans decided to use JustGiving’s new crowdfunding
tool. They have set up a campaign and invited football fans from around the world
to contribute.

Within its first few hours the campaign had raised £3,000, including from fans at
many other clubs. One Crystal Palace fan who has contributed said: “I know how it
feels for your club to be threatened with extinction. Glad I’m able to help save
this club.” A Manchester United fan said: “I’m a Manchester United fan, but also
a fan of the game. No club should be wound up!”

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Kettering Town FC was formed in 1872 and is a central part of the town and its community.
It is currently in Southern League Division one.

The campaign aimed to raise £20,000 towards the £58,000 debts. It has now achieved
that goal.

Mark Severn, head of Kettering Town Supporters Club, said: “With the likes of Gareth
Bale earning £300,000 a week it seems unfair that our club could go under for the
amount he roughly makes in two days.

“We’re campaigning through outreach on Twitter, thanks to enormous help from Matthew
Timms of Footy Accumulators and their magnificent army of followers, to [save Kettering Town Football Club](https://www.justgiving.com/local/project/savekettering)
ourselves, and discovering JustGiving’s crowdfunding tool has given us a great starting
point to help make this happen.”

JustGiving’s new [community crowdfunding platform](http://www.justgiving.com/projects)
is designed to help bring people in local communities together in order to fund 
social projects at grassroots levels.

 

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