Irvine Meadow 2013's are a community football club who have been established since 2017. For the past 7 years the 4 (volunteer) coaches/parents have worked tirelessly to give children the opportunity to play football. A successful application would allow our club to attend our first 'away' tournament in Skegness in April 2025. Fundraising to date has been a challenge for parents/families but we are still doing everything we can. This grant support would reduce the overall cost to parents.
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Irvine Meadow 2013s has a squad of 22. The team train twice a week between The Circuit and Greenwood and play in the North Ayrshire Soccer Association league each Saturday, come rain, hail or shine! Our football team plays a huge role in supporting the well-being of all the children and families involved, from encouraging health and fitness, to promoting team-work and building long-lasting friendships.
We are hoping to take the full squad to a tournament in Skegness in April 2025. The squad are all born in 2013 and currently vary between age 10 and 11. All will be 11 or 12 come the date of the tournament in April 2025. As with many local clubs funding can be a main challenge. We aim to keep the costs per month as low as possible for families, but the team still requires equipment, parks to train and play on and as we have now moved to 9 a-side, a referee for all games. We have had some fantastic support from local businesses who have kindly sponsored their training kits and match-day strips.
The squad are so excited to be attending a 3 day football tournament in England next year and we have been fundraising for this to try and reduce the cost to families. Ideally, we would love it if we could provide the funding for each players accommodation costs - at a cost of £150 per player.
We have successfully held a race night in which we made a profit of £923.00 and at the weekend we have a family yoga and polar dip event being held at Irvine beach and we are hoping to raise a further £300.00. We will continue to hold some events over the coming months to raise as much money for the team as we can to further reduce the overall cost to families.
As a team we are very conscious of each families financial position and would love to fully fund each players costs, to reduce the overall cost to each family. This would be a massive help towards the whole trip. A full breakdown of the tournament costs involved are detailed below.
We are applying for this grant of £1,000 which will be used to split between all the 22 players of the team. Each players accommodation costs are £150.00 per person. If successful, this grant will be split evenly between the players meaning they would get £45.45 towards their accommodation costs which would be fantastic.
Tournament Cost - £189.00 (2 teams registered £94.50 per 9 a-side team)
Player Accommodation Cost - £3,300.00 (22 players x £150.00 per player based on basic caravan at Butlins Skegness)
Total Accommodation Costs for players and their families - £13,200 (22 players and their families x £600.00 based on basic caravan at Butlins Skegness)
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