£10,000 grant buys club new tractor

CULCHETH Sports Club has won a £10,000 grant from the Premier League and the FA Facilities Fund – enabling the club to purchase a new tractor, with multiple attachments, to improve maintenance of its grounds.
The fund  provides grants towards developing new or refurbished grassroots football facilities and the new tractor replace equipment which was around 30 years old.
Culcheth Sports Club worked in partnership with the Lancashire FA to secure the grant.
The Premier League and The FA Facilities Fund is funded by the Premier League, The FA, and the Government, via Sport England.
It is delivered by the Football Foundation, the country’s largest sports charity. Since it was launched in 2000, the Foundation has awarded
around 14,000 grants worth more than £540 million towards improving grassroots sport, which it has used to attract additional partnership funding of more than £777 million – over £1.3bn of investment into the grassroots game.
Stuart Nightingale, chairman of the club’s football section, Daten FC,  said: “This new equipment will enable us to maintain the pitches and help us to attract new players and to secure the club for a good number of years.”
Paul Thorogood, chief executive of the Football Foundation, said: “I am delighted that a grant from the Premier League and The FA Facilities Fund has enabled Culcheth Sports Club to purchase much needed, state of the art pitch maintenance equipment.  This development will provide a real boost to football in the local area.”