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Press Release from The Football Foundation 6/09/01:

GREAT NEWS FOR GREAT PAXTON

Foundation Pitches In With £54,802

Footballers in Great Paxton have cause for celebration following a £54,802 grant from the Football Foundation, the nation’s largest sports charity.

 

The award to the Great Paxton Recreation Ground Committee will allow the group to redevelop their existing clubhouse, providing new changing rooms and a new social area. With these new facilities its hoped that participation in the area will increase, especially amongst women and girls who, for too long, have felt excluded from the game but now represent the biggest growth area of the game.

 

With a £60m per year budget the Foundation is dedicated to revitalising the grass roots of the game, constructing modern football facilities, developing football as a force for social cohesion and as a vehicle for education in communities throughout the country.

 

Welcoming this new grant Geoff Webb, Head of Grass Roots Development said:

 

"This award is the latest in our funding revolution bringing grass roots football into the 21st Century. The Football Foundation are determined to bring a new generation of football facilities to parks and schools throughout the country and this award will offer massive benefits to the footballers of Great Paxton. This award is a tribute to the dedication and hard work of all those involved with the club"

For Further Information Please Contact Simon Taylor on 020 7 534 4280

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Verbal confirmation last night (Friday 24/08/01) that we are going to get the money from the Football Foundation to enable the Pavilion Project to go ahead. Official statement expected soon.

Update 31/07/01 from Howard Fieldhouse:

'You will be pleased to hear that Mike Arthur has advised me that Mike Appleby has phoned him today and has told him that subject to ratification in writing from the Football Foundation Board (meeting 22nd August) that we will be awarded a grant of 75 % of the total cost of the Pavilion Extension
 We will have to wait for the written confirmation but this is exceptionally good news as it means we will be able to fund the majority of the work required (we may have to address the subject of perimeter fencing).

Further to the information passed on by Maurice re supposed meeting 12/13th July, the Grass Roots Advisory Board did not meet until yesterday but passed our request.

In an effort to try and understand the complexity then please read on.

   10th July         National Game Board passed our grant application
   30th July         Grass Roots Advisory Group passed our application 
   22nd August  Football Foundation to meet to ratify decision and advise on level of funding in writing.'

Update 11/07/01 : At a very important meeting yesterday our application for funds from the Football Foundation passed it's first test. We are now very hopeful of success and if so blessed will be looking to start the improvements at the end of August.

Extracted from the chairman's column in the village magazine........

"you will know the importance of securing funds for the pavilion extension and the inclusion of basic essentials as toilets, showers etc. It is not acceptable for today’s sports people, not to have basic hygiene facilities available to them. Our efforts, of which I assure you have been long and arduous, to secure Lottery funding for this project have proved to be in vain due to a change in the direction of fund allocation. The emergence of The Football Foundation (for those who remember it’s introduction was publicly televised by Tony Blair and Kevin Keegan) has resulted in Lottery grants being focused on multi sport projects and football is now to be supported at grass roots by The Football Foundation. Therefore all our attention is now being put to secure the grant funding from them. We are being fully supported in our grant funding application by the Hunts FA, and they have been very helpful by visiting the FA headquarters at Soho Square, London returning with the newly introduced application form for us to complete and submit. We received the application form Friday 16th Feb and the rec ground sub committee of Mike Arthur, Terry Cole, Trevor Smith and myself are to complete the form and return it together with copies of returned Tenders for the work, by the end of February. Grant Aid from this, HDC (which is now moved to April 2001), The FA and from football club’s own funds is expected to raise sufficient monies to allow completion of the work for the football season 2001/02."

 

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