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Ambitious amateur football club Swinton Athletic FC are looking to raise money to help the re-development of their home ground by climbing Scafell Pike, England’s tallest peak, which stands at 978metres tall, over 6 times higher than Blackpool tower.
The club are doing the sponsored walk to raise money to redevelop the ‘Swinton Miners Welfare Field‘, which is currently held under the trusteeship of RMBC, as well as looking to raise funds to provide sports equipment for Swinton Milton Specialist School, which is not covered in their annual budget.
In 2013, Swinton Athletic and its members raised over £1500 for the school by completing the ‘Yorkshire dales 3 peak challenge’. That money was used to buy all the pupils new PE clothing, but the ambitious club are now looking to contribute even more to the schools sporting activities by raising more money.
Swinton Athletic was originally founded in 1946, but folded in 2005 due to a lack of finances and interest from players.
However in 2008, the club was reformed by local football enthusiasts Andrew Billups (Current Club Chairman) & Martin Rouane (Current Club Secretary) and has since grown from strength to strength.
The club now has 3 adult teams, and has founded a junior section, ‘Swinton Athletic Spartans JFC which means over 150 kids are playing football when previously they had no option to represent their town.
Unfortunately, as private funding lines are now at a premium at the moment, the club are not being detracted from the efforts in growing the participation of sporting activities in our town.
The future for football looks bright in Swinton.
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