Celebrating our 40th anniversary with the opening of the new clubhouse
As well as the club celebrating its 40th anniversary, we also opened the doors to our new state-of-the-art clubhouse on Saturday 20 July.
After netting a £350,642 grant from the Premier League, The FA and Government's Football Foundation, work began on our Pit Lane site in Queensbury in November 2018. The project was undertaken to replace the very dilapidated clubhouse that was originally designed as a chicken shed- it had poor disability access, as well as inadequate toilet and changing facilities.
The new facility comprises of two changing rooms, an officials’ room, a community space for teaching and meetings and a social/café area with a new kitchen facility plus access to the club’s dedicated 900m² sports hall and grass pitches. Sovereign Healthcare provided £10,000 funding to help ensure full disability access throughout the new facility, including a lift into the adjacent sports hall.
The aim of building the new facility is to maintain and develop football and other healthy living activities in the local communities and to ensure the long-term sustainability of our grassroot junior football club that celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.