News from Sleights

By Andrew Snaith

Sleights FC would like to thank Whitby Town Football Club for their hospitality recently.

More than one of our junior sides have received great welcomes from the Blues as matchday mascots. Everyone at the club made an effort to chat to our youngsters and ensure they had a great day.

SFC have been fortunate enough to earn grant funding from the Football Foundation, Woodsmith Trust and Barclays. This will enable us to complete a number of projects.

Our youngest sides- Under 8s and 10s require new goalposts for their small-sided matches. The money has enabled us to buy high quality replacements for our current posts.

We are now also able to extend one of our existing coaches’ badges from FA Level 1 to 2, also to run our popular Miniballers session for 4-8 year olds again.

Our volunteers will be able to get their accreditations renewed, which are needed to work with young people too.

We will keep you updated with our plans via @sleightsfc on Twitter and our website sleightsfc.co.uk and on Facebook.

The response from local people has been great with lots of enquiries for players to join our teams- Sleights currently run U8, U10, U13 and U14 teams- however there are plans for at least two new teams for 2023/24. Any parents or guardians can contact the club on sleightsfc@gmail.com or via our social media.

Finally, a big thank you to all our sponsors, Car Care of Marske who kindly sponsor our ground at Lowdale Lane in the village as well as Hume Electrical Services, Vinyl Signs of Whitby, Whitby Am Dram, Wantiques of Whitby, Bright Cloud Group and Identity Printing.