NORTH Companions Football Club are set to add new training facilities to their Marius St base, with state government delivering funding for development at the Tamworth club.
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The new facility won’t be ready for the 2017 season, but the club said the development of currently unused land will help keep the playing fields in better nick in the future.
“We have two fields where roughly 300 players and about 32 teams of players train,” club president Steven Mitchell said.
“This will create less stress on the two fields.”
Mitchell said the funding will essentially create a training area for the club’s junior players, who make up a great deal of Northie’s numbers.
About 2500 square metres of land at the site will be leveled and primed for training to keep juniors and seniors separate.
“It was previously a nothing area, we saw an opportunity to create this space,” Mitchell said.
The club secured $18,005 from the NSW government for the makeover, which was granted through the “community building partnerships program”.
Tamworth MP Kevin Anderson said the money should help the club grow.
“When Northies came to us and said ‘give us a bit of hand’, we said ‘absolutely’, Mr Anderson said.
“We were able to facilitate the process of that.
“Each year the program comes online and we’ll be letting organisations and the community know when it does open up again and I encourage clubs to put their hand, I want to make sure that our communities get their fair share.”
Jacob McArthur
Jacob McArthur is opinions editor for The Canberra Times and Australian Community Media. As part of the Canberra Times' production team, he helps the people of Canberra and beyond get the stories they need, when they need them across a range of platforms, while helping maintain a high editorial standard. Before moving to Canberra in 2020, he started with Australian Community Media in 2015 as a journalist for The Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he kept a close eye on Tamworth Regional Council. Jacob was also the co-host of ACM's Water Pressure podcast where he and Jamieson Murphy took a deep dive on issues and key decisions arising during one of the region's worst droughts on record.
Jacob McArthur is opinions editor for The Canberra Times and Australian Community Media. As part of the Canberra Times' production team, he helps the people of Canberra and beyond get the stories they need, when they need them across a range of platforms, while helping maintain a high editorial standard. Before moving to Canberra in 2020, he started with Australian Community Media in 2015 as a journalist for The Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he kept a close eye on Tamworth Regional Council. Jacob was also the co-host of ACM's Water Pressure podcast where he and Jamieson Murphy took a deep dive on issues and key decisions arising during one of the region's worst droughts on record.
