Leisure grants


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ocal clubs and organisations have benefited from thousands of pounds’-worth of grants in recent months to help them improve facilities for their communities.


The grants come from the council’s Leisure Capital Programme. This helps community sport, arts or heritage


Railways Bowls Club – £3,800


For an automatic irrigation system for the bowling green. The Railway Bowls Club is made up of two clubs that joined together about five years ago.


Appleby Frodingham Works Athletics Club £10,000 To assist with upgrading tennis facilities, and create new synthetic turf hockey and football facilities.


KLASSIC (Kirton-in- Lindsey Actively Supporting Sport in the Community) – £30,000 To assist with construction of a new artificial bowling gree, relocation and improvements to the bowls pavilion, including bringing electricity, water and drainage to the site.


Glanford & Scunthorpe Canoe Club – £30,000


To assist with the construction of a new boathouse at the rear of Ancholme Leisure Centre, Brigg. Their boats currently have to be transported every session from stores in Scunthorpe eight miles away.


Belton Bowls Club – £7,000


For the replacement of a bowling green mower at this club with 30 members from several villages in the Isle of Axholme. This will help them maintain the bowling green.


Crowle and Ealand Playing Field Association – £5,500 To assist with the construction of a new skate park facility in Crowle. The skate park will be an exciting place for young people in North Axholme to go and take part in sport.


St Andrew’s Church Epworth – £30,000 To help with conservation work and adaptations to facilitate community use for concerts, exhibitions and other community activities .


Bottesford Town Football Club – £5,000 To help buy a grass-cutting machine and provide a hard standing to the access area. This will allow them to develop a former playing field off Sunningdale Road to provide additional playing areas for junior players.


Worlaby Crew youth club – £1,090


To help the development of the new youth club by buying equipment.


Barton Town Cricket Club – £1,175 To help with the construction of a new score box and to buy a new scoreboard.


Community Heritage Arts and Media Project (CHAMP) in Barton – £440 To supply, install and commission a closed circuit television (CCTV) system.


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projects. Recent grants have ranged in size from a few hundred pounds up to £30,000, and have helped pay for projects as diverse as church refurbishments and new grass cutting equipment. See below for details of where the money went.


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