We are a community football team run by volunteers with 38 boys and girls from Largs & surrounding areas. We aim to provide a safe and fun environment to develop skills and a love for the game.
Description
We started up our team with a small group of kids and a few parent volunteers who agreed to become novice football coaches.
Since then our team has expanded in popularity and we now have a small army of 38 boys and girls who train twice a week and play games in the local NASA league at weekends. Our team is ably assisted by a band of volunteer parents who help out in all weathers whether coaching, providing transport to games, setting up equipment, cheering loudly, chasing balls, administering first aid or anything else required!
As with many such local groups, funding is always a significant issue. We have always tried to keep the fees for parents as low as possible and we have been grateful so far to have the support of some kind local business owners who have helped out with the costs of match-day and training kits as well as equipment such as footballs.
A large part of the income from fees is spent on training and match day facilities as well as replacing balls etc. which doesn’t leave much extra to spend on gear for the kids.
We are hoping to get funding to cover the cost of waterproof winter jackets for all of our players to use at training and games, the west coast of Scotland isn’t known for being the most forgiving places to be running around a football pitch and we’d like to keep them all warm and dry as much as possible.
The ideal jacket we have identified is Pendle Inter Rain Jacket (black/red) which is fleece lined, wind proof, waterproof and heavy duty with a hood to cope with our winter training and games, we would be looking to get 29 kids sizes @ £24.29 plus 10 small adult sizes @ £29.29, total £997.31 which would give us one spare.
Any help you were able to offer with this would be hugely appreciated by all of the kids and our volunteers.
Location: We aim to promote a fun, inclusive physical activity across all of our area
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