As some of you will be aware, it’s only a few more days until 3 of our mega-fans try to raise funds for our floodlight appeal – by walking from Westfield Lane to Goole for our away fixture on Saturday
Chris Medwell, Michael ‘Boomer’ Holmes & Alex Hewitt will be doing the hard yards for 23 miles, with the trek expected to take around 8 hours. This is a massive undertaking by the boys, especially Chris who broke his hips a few years back though he doesn’t really talk about it….
To all of you travelling to the game, if you see them en route – give them a honk of encouragement / give them energy drinks (not too many for Medwell, he gets giddy) but most helpful of all would be to give them a quid or 2 if you can afford it here is the link to the funding page
All size donations are welcome
We would like to say a massive thanks to Mick Hewitt & the local branch of the Leeds United Supporters Club for their incredible support & donations – it means a lot to us
Here’s why we need to fundraise:
There is no finer sight than the Wezziecana (aka The SALUS Stadium), especially under the floodies on a cold winter evening but the floodlights are inching closer to their end of life. Installed in the 1980s they are expensive to run in terms of electricity usage & replacement bulbs are now over £200 per bulb (and we lose at least 2 per season)
So we are now looking to have brand new LED floodlights installed – it’s the right thing to do, it will save money, it’s better environmentally and the lights are guaranteed for 10 years
We have applied for (and been granted) 70% of the costs but we need to find the remaining 30% and that’s our biggest challenge
Frickley Athletic is more than the first team at 3pm on a Saturday – our Foundation, our academy teams & our womens football teams are all based here – so we are reaching out to our local community in SESKU & beyond, to regional & national supporters for help.
Also If you know an organisation that might be interested in becoming corporate sponsors, we’d be delighted to hear from them – sponsorship details:
• Pick a Pylon
• £1000+VAT gets signage on the pylon for the next 3 years
• Match sponsorship one game per season
• ¼ programme advert for the next 3 seasons
• Shout outs on social media
….and of course our huge thanks for helping the club!
Let’s make sure the lights keep shining bright at the Wezzie!
