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SHEFFIELD KICKS OFF GRASSROOTS HUB Sports Minister Tracey Crouch and Sport England Chairman, Nick Bitel have joined FA Chief Executive Martin Glenn and Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Councillor Denise Fox to officially open the country’s first Parklife grassroots football hub at Graves in Sheffield. The Parklife Football Hubs Programme is part of The FA’s bold plan to address poor facilities in grassroots football and an example of the governing body’s commitment to football for all – through investment in pitches, facilities
and participation programmes. In Sheffield, the city council made significant financial contribution to the construction of three sites. In addition to Graves, in the south of the city, a further site has opened in Thorncliffe to the north with Westfield in South East Sheffield due to start construction next month, subject to final approvals. Glenn said: “The FA is committed to football for all – through significant investment in pitches, facilities and participation programmes. The
Parklife Football Hubs Programme exemplifies this. “We have a marvellous facility here – and it is the start of something very special. As Parklife expands nationally it will mark the end of a story all-too-familiar to the grassroots footballer of poor pitches, woefully inadequate changing facilities and a battle against the elements to get fixtures completed each winter.” The first two hubs at Graves and Thorncliffe will host league matches for up to five resident clubs played on state-of-
the-art 3G artificial grass pitches (AGPs) – which will help combat the inevitable disruption caused by frozen and waterlogged surfaces during the harsh winter months. Typically a well-maintained natural turf pitch can offer 6-8 playing hours of football a week, however AGPs can easily accommodate double that volume on a daily basis – massively increasing the number of playing opportunities and offering football at flexible times in-keeping with the demands of the modern footballer. The centres are fully accessible, present
opportunities to play flexible forms of the game and are available for use by other sports. They are run and maintained using a selfsustaining model through the establishment of a newly formed Sheffield Football Trust. Leisure facilities operator Pulse will be responsible for day-to-day operation of the facilities having won the contract through competitive tender. The FA, alongside the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), the Premier League and local partners are set to invest £200 million in the project.
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