Community football club changing rooms get a boost

16/09/2024
Banchory Football Club

BANCHORY Community Football Club has received a £5,000 grant from renewable company, RES, to help refurbish their water-damaged changing rooms.

The Club was formed in 1978 with the aim of providing positive life enhancing experiences using football to help people of Deeside and surrounding areas achieve their goals. The club now has over 600 members and has big plans to develop, including renovating one of their key sites that has suffered leaks and water damage.

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Following an approach from the club and hearing about their plans, as a community club, to repair and upgrade their changing facilities in Banchory, RES was able to offer a £5,000 grant to support the refurbishment work.

Derek Thomson, Chairperson of Banchory Football Club, explained: “The investment Banchory Community Football Club (BCFC) are able to make on our King George 5th pavilion, has only been made possible due to the generosity of RES and their commitment to supporting local communities. We’re delighted to have created our partnership with RES and look forward with great optimism to seeing how both our organisations build on this initial engagement.”

RES is the world’s largest independent renewable energy company, with the firm delivering more than 27GW of renewable energy projects across the globe and plans to bring more than 22GW of new capacity online in the next five years.

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