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New training floodlights to be installed

New training floodlights to be installed

Richard Smith19 Sep 2017 - 16:50
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Work starts this week on first major club development project

Work will start this week (on Friday 22nd September) on the installation of new training lights at Birmingham & Solihull’s Portway ground. This follows confirmation that planning permission has been granted by the local council.

The project – with a total capital value of just under £39,000 – is being funded through support and donations from a number of quarters in the club, including club sponsors NUCO International and Oaklands International. Funds raised from this summer’s LEJOG4THEBOG challenge are also being channelled into the project, along with monies from the Age Grade section of the club.

The decision to “green light” this project follows input from all sections of the club at two open meetings held early this year and the subsequent agreement of the club’s near-term improvement priorities.

Installation of the new training lights will provide enhanced participation opportunities at every age level throughout the club and will also help to maintain the standard of the playing surface on the first team pitch.

Installing the new training lights at this early stage of the season will help to alleviate potential problems which have occurred in previous seasons on, what currently is, the only floodlit pitch, which can become waterlogged and worn due to overuse.

Due to the immediacy of the requirement, all funds have been raised from within the club, with no external grant support or funding sought. As this is, hopefully, the first of a number of initiatives at Portway in the coming years as part of an embryonic Club Development Plan, we will be actively seeking grant and matched funding for future projects.

Indeed, work has already begun on transitioning the existing Club’s constitution and operational set up to facilitate this. Further details will be made available to all club stakeholders in due course.

Weather permitting, the training lights are scheduled to be installed, commissioned and operational in ten working days.

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