Sarisbury Athletic Cricket Club has secured £34,824 to revamp its facilities as part of Sport England’s Inspired Facilities Fund.
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Sarisbury Athletic Cricket Club awarded £34,000 for facilities revamp
The cricket club based in Allotment Road will use the Olympic legacy funding to renovate the clubhouse and build an extension.
A new purpose-built grounds facility will also be built to store the club’s equipment and electric scoreboard and it hopes to attract new people into the sport.
Chairman Steve Roberts said: “This grant has enabled our club, which is rapidly rising up the Hampshire cricket pyramid, to expand and modernise its facilities to keep pace with the rise in playing standards. We now have amongst the best changing and social facilities of any cricket ground in Hampshire and we certainly wouldn’t have been able to achieve that without the help of Sport England.”
The Inspired Facilities fund is part of the £135 million Places People Play legacy programme that is hoping to bring the magic of a home Olympic and Paralympic Games into communities across the country.
Each sports facility that receives funding will carry the London 2012 Inspire mark – celebrating the link to the games.
Sport England’s Chair, Richard Lewis, said: “This investment will create will be a fantastic sporting legacy for Fareham.
“This fund has really hit the mark with sports clubs in Hampshire. It shows we’re offering the legacy that people want for their local community. For hundreds of clubs and tens of thousands of people, 2012 will be the year their local sports facilities got better.”
Fareham MP, Mark Hoban, said: “I am very grateful to Sport England for making a generous contribution towards improving facilities in my constituency. New facilities at the cricket club and new pitches mean that for more people sport is something they do rather than watch.”
The Sarisbury project is one of 350 community sports groups who have been awarded a total of £17.4 million in Olympic legacy funding through the Inspired Facilities Fund.
Minister for Sport and the Olympics, MP Hugh Robertson, said: “We want to use the Olympic and Paralympics next summer to inspire a generation to get involved in sport across the country. This is why as part of the £135 million Places People Play legacy programme we invited community sports clubs to apply for funding to upgrade their facilities.”
Sport England’s Places People Play scheme is in partnership with the British Olympic Association (BOA) and the British Paralympic Association (BPA) with backing from The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and the London 2012 Inspire mark.
