Slough Town awarded £6,000 Grow the Game grant

SLOUGH Town have been awarded £6,000 to boost grassroots football in the area.

The club are celebrating being awarded the ‘Grow the Game grant’ which will progress the club’s formation of girls and women’s football teams and add to its disability provision by introducing a second adult team and youth team in the next two years.

Grow the Game is a £2.5m programme funded by the FA and Football Foundation which awards grants to clubs that wish to create new teams, especially amongst under represented groups. Last year the scheme saw 2,159 team teams created and enabled 5, 715 people to achieve new coaching qualifications.

Slough’s general secretary Kay Lathey said: “We are delighted to have been successful in our bid for funding from the Football Foundation. Now that the club is back in the town we aim to develop a provision that the whole community can benefit from and grow the club into something that the whole town is proud of. We have decided to focus on two areas where there is a distinct lack of provision for competitive football.