Border City Lacrosse Club, in collaboration with Irving Vale Cricket Club, is looking to raise £5,000 to fund brand new changing facilities for the use of the sports teams based at Cotehill Park Sports Ground, Brampton.
The new portacabin-type changing rooms with showers will allow Border City to attract more players into their club as well as more visiting teams.
The clubs are looking to replace the current clubhouse which, while functional, is cramped and does not have vital changing space and washing facilities.
Both Border City and Irving Vale will be able to use the new facilities all year round and it will allow them to ensure additional safeguarding requirements are met.
Border City is a relatively new lacrosse club and the first based in Cumbria and has a big focus on community, having supplied equipment and coaching to William Howard School and Ullswater Community College in the past; the club is currently working with Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Penrith.
Alongside this, the club has organised coaching sessions for local Scout and Brownie groups, other sports teams, Primary Schools, and outreach groups, including refugees.
The club’s men’s team play in the north of England lacrosse league and it currently has fledgling junior and women’s programmes.
By developing its local talent, Border City hopes to see local residents benefit from the opportunities that will arise over the next few years from the playing opportunities the club is providing at the ground.
The ultimate goal for Border City is to, alongside its partners, Irving Vale Cricket Club, make Cotehill Park Sports Ground a true community asset.
Already the two clubs have transformed the ground with the addition of a lacrosse pitch, fencing, and improved maintenance of adjacent rights of way. In addition, the clubs have put in over 40 community allotments on adjacent waste ground and improved access and parking.
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