Estimated Price

£1,000

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Summary

Kilwinning Sports Club/ Kilwinning Rangers FC is at the heart of our local community. The army of volunteers at our club all share the ethos of ‘ONE TOWN, ONE CLUB’. Our application is to establish additional storage areas for all our teams.

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Description

Whilst we hope to develop a lot of our young players to one day play for Kilwinning Rangers FC or other senior professional or semi-professional teams, we are just as single-minded in our vision to having as many young players continue in sport and activity, whether that be football, running, tennis or other activities on offer at our club.

We believe our project will promote aspiration and education in our area, North Ayrshire; a known disadvantaged area,encapsulating:

Health and Wellbeing

Poverty and Inequality.

Voice and Participation.

Our application for £1000 will be used to ensure we have proper and secure storage facilities for the kit and equipment of our 17 teams, to properly maintain our boot/ kit exchange and to ensure all teams have an equal opportunity to continue playing organised sport with the correct equipment. 

We would hope to start our project as soon as practicable and promote the exchange through our many social media accounts and though the local press.

 

What difference will the project make and who will benefit?

With experience of running and managing youth football teams for over 16 years, we appreciate it is a costly business. The provision of a large and organised storage area, well stocked and maintained will essentially provide individuals and groups/ teams in our community who are perhaps less fortunate than others with the means to provide football equipment and sports kit for their children.This is particularly relevant for newly formed teams who may be less reliant and perhaps not as fortunate to have generous sponsors or fundraisers in place to assist with the running costs of youth football teams.

We have included our Youth Football Section Forum in researching and writing this application. One of our former Youth Football Section Forum members has also travelled to a secondary school in Osika, Kenya twice in the last two years, donating a large number of KSC Kilwinning Rangers Youth Football kits and tracksuits to the pupils there.