Altrincham FC gives support to a campaign for new sports facilities at Altrincham Grammar School

Altrincham FC is giving its support to a campaign that will provide new sports facilities for the local community, based at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys.

Both the club and the school are vital parts of the Altrincham community. For the last year, the school has been running a campaign, called ‘Sport For All’, to raise funds for new sports facilities that can be used by pupils at every level of sport, and by community teams and clubs in the evenings and weekends.

Each home game, Altrincham FC nominate a designated community cause or charity, with publicity in matchday media and club social channels and the opportunity for collections at the ground if appropriate. For the home game against Bromley on Saturday, 7th January the club will be promoting the school’s ‘Sport For All’ Campaign.

Teams from the Altrincham FC youth section already train on the 3G Astroturf behind the school in the evenings, but the new campaign aims to significantly improve its multi-sport facilities by raising money to build a new full-size 4G floodlit football and rugby pitch, covered tennis courts, cricket nets and two new cricket squares on the school grounds.

The campaign, led by parents and the school, aims to raise one million pounds to take AGSB sports facilities to a new level and inspire a new generation of school and community athletes, defying the weather and conditions that can be an obstacle to that goal. The campaign team are already two-thirds of the way to that target.

Altrincham FC Director, Sam Mackenzie comments “We’re very proud of our work at every level with the local community in the Altrincham area. Our aim is to help get young people playing sport and further embed the club in the local community. We’re delighted to be helping Altrincham Grammar in their aim of providing new sports facilities that can be used by kids at the school and local clubs alike.”

Altrincham Grammar School for Boys Headmaster, Graeme Wright, said: “Our ‘Making a Difference – Sport for All’ Campaign will create facilities that can inspire pupils of every ability, allow extended community use for clubs in the Altrincham area and take the school’s sporting tradition to a new level.

The benefits of sport are well-documented – teamwork, confidence, benefits to mental health – but too often during the winter months our pitches are waterlogged, and lessons, training and fixtures get cancelled. As a state-funded grammar school, we lag behind a number of schools in terms of the annual funding that we receive from the Government, so this campaign is vital for the successful future of sport at our school. I want to thank everyone at Altrincham FC for their support.”

More information on the campaign can be found at www.agsb.co.uk