More than 200 youngsters are set to benefit from funding which will help them keep active this winter.
Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership (GAMP) has supported Newton Aycliffe Youth Centre Junior Football Club with its indoor winter training costs.
Funding will also be used to purchase new mini soccer goals and support the clubs Adult Soccability team.
GAMP has supported the project with £4,400 which has come from Cllr Joan Gray and Cllr Paul Gittins’ neighbourhood budgets.
Brian Riley, GAMP coordinator, said: “A key priority for GAMP is to help support the local community and voluntary sector.
“This funding will not only help the club but also benefit hundreds of local young people who play for the football club.”
Newton Aycliffe Youth Centre Football Club was established in 1989 and is an FA Charter Standard Community Club. Today the club boasts 19 teams with more than 200 local boys and girls aged between four and 18-years-old.
This funding will cover the cost of providing winter training facilities to ensure the all the players keep up their training in the winter months.
For the Younger age groups, this includes Sports Halls at Greenfield Community Arts Centre and Woodham Community Technology College as well as Aycliffe leisure centre and AycliffeYouth Centre. The older age groups will benefit from floodlit, all weather, 3G facilities at Greenfield
The club also supports an adult Soccability team which comprises of players aged between 16 and 51-years-old with learning and physical disabilities. Funding will help the club cover affiliation costs, registration, league fees and insurances as well as end of season awards for this team.
GAMP is one of 14 Area Action Partnerships set up by Durham County Council in 2009 to help the council better engage with residents.
