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Latics enhance disabled supporters’ matchday experience thanks to Premier League Fans Fund grant


Wigan Athletic supporters will benefit from an enhanced matchday experience next season, thanks to a Premier League Fans Fund grant which will enable Wigan Athletic Com- munity Trust to improve facilities for junior disabled supporters. The grant will enable the


Community Trust to create an area in the Club’s existing Family Zone for their junior disabled supporters, giving them the opportunity to enjoy fun pre-match activities before every home game. The space will also be used by schools and community groups across Wigan to help promote the new matchday offering. The funding will also enable the


Lisa Nandy MP, said: “We


live in such a diverse country and it’s therefore extremely encouraging to see football clubs like Wigan Athletic eliminating any potential barriers to access the sport. The Premier League’s funding has been fantastic and will make a huge difference to the matchday experience of junior disabled supporters.” Jonathan Jackson, Wigan


Lisa Nandy MP (centre right) is joined by Wigan Athletic Chief Executive, John Jackson (centre-left) and Latics first-team members, Max Power (far left) and Christian Walton (far right) to present a Premier League Fans Fund cheque.


Community Trust to create a new junior disabled supporters club and develop a platform on the Club’s website to enable disabled supporters and their families to see the stadium and fans zone before they visit. Lisa Nandy, MP for the Wigan constituency,


presented Wigan Athletic Community Trust with the Premier League Fans Fund cheque for £18,350, on the club’s annual Latics Open Day at the Robin Park Arena, which attracted more than 2,000 of the club’s supporters and saw fans given the opportunity to meet a number of the club’s first team squad, including Will Grigg, Max Power and Christian Walton.


Athletic Chief Executive and Trustee of the Community Trust said: “Through our equality and diversity programme Together the football club has made a


commitment to try and attract more young people with disabilities to come to home games at the DW Stadium. “This grant from the Premier League Fans


Fund will allow us to build on the great work that the Community Trust already does in SEN and mainstream schools and encourage more of their participants to become part of the Latics family.”


Essex club goes from strength to strength with series of ground improvements


The project was made possible by investment from the Premier League, which has been delivered by the Football Stadia Improvement Fund (FSIF). The investment has allowed Brightlingsea


Regent FC, who play in the Isthmian League Premier Division to install a new 100-seat covered stand that is fully compliant with cur- rent safety legislation. The new stand means the ground now meets the requirements of Grade C of the FA National Ground Grading Criteria for their Step 3 position. The club currently runs two


senior teams, with its reserves playing in the Eastern Counties Eastern Senior League at Step 6. The improvements will also benefit the Under-19s Academy, which runs in partnership with the Colne Community School and plays in the National League Alliance C Division. The project was made possible


by a £14,013 grant from the Premier League, which is delivered through the Football Stadia Improvement Fund – the sister


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organisation of the Football Foundation. In 2014, following their promotion to Step


4, Brightlingsea Regent FC also received a grant of £30,975 from the Premier League through the FSIF, which enabled them to install a new spectator stand and improve accessibility to their clubhouse. Prior to this, the club received £10,216 in 2012 to make initial stadia improvements, which takes the Premier League’s investment in improving the club’s infrastructure to £55,204. The FSIF is funded with £6.5m each year


from the Premier League. It is the country’s largest provider of grants towards projects that help improve the comfort and safety of lower-league football grounds in both the professional and amateur game. These improvements range from new football stands and turnstiles to floodlighting and improved provision for disabled supporters. Terry Doherty, Chairman of Brightlingsea


Regent FC, said: “As a club we are extremely grateful to the FSIF and the Essex Community Initiatives Fund for aiding the club once again in its ongoing stadium improvements. Thanks to both these bodies and our club commercial department we have been able to achieve a Grade C ground certificate which has enabled us to remain at Step 3 on the non-league football pyramid. “Our next project will be to


extend our dressing rooms to comply with new forthcoming regulations. The new stand means that we can now seat over 250 people under cover, which is fabulous.”


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