Brighton Gets Barclays Spaces For Sports Boost

Brighton is the latest venue to benefit from the Barclays Spaces for Sports
programme with a new £500,000 sports facility opened in the east of the city.

Following the cash injection from Barclays and support from the Football
Foundation, the Crew Club site in East Brighton will benefit from refurbishment
of an existing multi-use Games area with floodlighting and fencing, a purpose
built changing pavilion and reinstatement of two full-size grass football
pitches.

With backing and support from Brighton & Hove Albion football club and
Brighton & Hove City Council, the site is part of a £30m investment from the
Barclays Spaces for Sports initiative to create sustainable sports facilities
across the UK.

The project will receive a further £45,000 from Barclays to ensure the
sustainability of the site plus kit and equipment worth £5,000.

The site, owned by Brighton & Hove City Council and just under five miles
from the Withdean Stadium, will also enable Brighton & Hove Albion football
club and the council’s Sports Development Team to extend their sporting
provision in the area.

Since the announcement of the scheme in September 2004, Barclays Spaces for
Sports has opened more than 160 sites and awarded 3,600 coaching packs to local
communities up and down the country, giving over 440,000 disadvantaged people
the opportunity to benefit from sport.