Gateshead club receives Football Foundation grant
Howard Lake | 2 October 2006 | News
The Football Foundation, the UK’s largest sports charity, has made a grant of £3,561 to the Gateshead Cleveland Hall Community Football Club. The funding will enable the club to maintain to a high level their football playing area, consisting of four mini soccer pitches and two 11 a side pitches.
The Football Foundation works to revitalise the grass roots of the game by constructing modern football facilities, developing football “as a force for social cohesion” and as a vehicle for education in communities throughout the country. Funded by the FA Premier League, The Football Association, Sport England and the Government, the Football Foundation has a £45 million annual budget.
Paul Thorogood, Chief Executive of the Football Foundation said: “We warmly congratulate Gateshead Cleveland Hall Community Football Club and the Durham FA for their hard work and dedication in securing this award.
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“Grass roots football is the lifeblood of the game in this country which is why is vital that projects such as this now have the benefit of Foundation cash.”
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