Otley Town AFC is delighted that the Community 3G Pitch at Prince Henry's Grammar School has received planning permission and that the project is one step closer to reality.

However, we now need the Club's members to please help raise funds to make the Community 3G Pitch a reality for our Club and community.

You will probably know that, for several years, we have been working with other local clubs and PHGS on a project to build a community 3G pitch at the School. The project received planning permission in November. The pitch will be great for our junior members during the School day – but will revolutionise our Club’s opportunities in the evenings and at weekends.

As a Key Partner Club, we will be involved in the running of the pitch and will get first choice of training slots in the evenings at special reduced rates. This will significantly reduce the need to cancel training sessions due to waterlogged training areas at The Old Showground and avoid over using the pitches and ruining the quality of them for matchdays. It will save teams having to pay full price to hire out external venues outside of Otley and therefore reduce the need to travel for players and parents.

The Project Team is hopeful of securing partnership funding for the vast majority of this £750,000 project from the Football Foundation and Sport England – however, we are unlikely to secure this funding if we cannot demonstrate that our wider community supports the initiative. We are working with the other Key Partner Clubs and Prince Henry’s to raise money and are approaching Otley Town Council for support. This is our only opportunity to bring this exciting project to life, after 6 years of work with our community partners.

A project of this size cannot be achieved without the support of our Club community, so we are writing to ask you to help us, if you can, with a donation towards this amazing project. This project has the chance to make the single biggest change to our club in recent years.

If you are able to make a donation, of whatever size, please go to our crowdfunding page and donate, stating in brackets (Otley Town), so that we know you are a member of Otley Town AFC. EG: Joe Bloggs (Otley Town)

If we are unable to raise the full amount needed to build the 3G pitch, the money donated by us will be used for our Club, but together we have the chance to do something really special for Otley.

We are aware that, for families as well as our Club, the last two years have been particularly challenging - any donation that you can make will be doubly appreciated.

The Crowdfunding page can be accessed here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/3g-pitch-otley

Thank you.

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