Wantage Town Juniors Awarded Grant

Wantage Town Juniors (formerly Wantage Concords) have been awarded a £2,000 grant from our County Councillor Community budget fund towards portable lighting units for Tugwell Field.  The lighting units will allow childrens' teams to continue to train during winter evenings.  The opening of Tugwell Field as a football nursery for the younger age groups means that there will be additional capacity in the club for more children to train.  This is a thriving football club who have 140 boys and girls on the books from Wantage, Grove and surrounding villages. The club has a wider fundraising scheme to develop the site and to construct a building to provide changing rooms and other facilities.

I have already funded £1,500 towards Grove Challengers' portable goalposts as you will have seen in my previous post.  This means that both clubs will have benefitted from this fund to enable them to provide addtional resources for their local teams.  We all know what a valuable asset these clubs are for the wellbeing of our young people in the community.  Councillor Hannaby and myself have managed to pool our budgets for many of our grants to enable the money to go further.  I have two more applications waiting approval as the money has to be allocated by the end of February.  If these are successful, then my funds will be all used up.