2 September 2007
EUXTON SCORE WITH NEW SAFER GOALPOSTS
FROM FOOTBALL FOUNDATION
Following a successful funding bid, the Football Foundation has awarded Euxton Parish Council half the cost to replace its football goalposts with new, safer ones a grant of over £800.
They were awarded the grant after applying to the Football Foundation’s Goalpost Safety Scheme. Since 1991 nine young footballers have tragically been killed in the UK by unsafe goals. Many more have been seriously injured by posts and crossbars that fail to meet even basic safety standards.
Teaming up with The F ootball Association (FA) , the Football Foundation has earmarked almost £4m to replace non-compliant and unsafe goals in England at thousands of schools, clubs and parks across the country.
Funded by the Premier League, The FA, Sport England and the Government, the Football Foundation is dedicated to revitalising the grass roots of the game, constructing modern football facilities, developing football as a force for social cohesion and as a vehicle for education in communities.
Euxton Parish Council Chairman, Eric Jones thanked the Football Foundation: “This funding towards new, safer goalposts is a fantastic boost. Football is our national sport and it is great that the Football Foundation is investing in improving the grassroots of the game.”
Photo is of the new goal posts and nets at Euxton Parish Council’s Greenside Recreation Grounds with one of the teams from Euxton Girls Football Club.
For more information contact Euxton Parish Council 01257 234004 email euxtoncouncil@btinternet.com or visit www.euxtoncouncil.org.uk
For more information about Euxton Girls Football Club contact Dennis Winn on 01257 415 953
For more information on this story or the Football Foundation contact Rory Carroll on 0845 345 4555 ext 4280 or visit www.footballfoundation.org.uk
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Goals are put up for the first time
Euxton Girls Football Club - play with the goals for the first time
Goals stored at the pavilion
Old goals being disposed of
