Batley’s Mount Cricket Club feel their plans to create a multi-sports facility have been stuck in a seven-year limbo because they cannot accept National Lottery funding.
Grassroots funding body Sport England states on its website it offers “very limited scope to fund smaller projects” with non-Lottery money for those organisations which cannot accept Lottery cash for religious reasons, because it derives from gambling. However, this inability to back bigger capital projects without using Lottery money is seen as a “disparity” by Abdul A Ravat, Mount’s player and development officer, one which he says has created “perpetual inequity” for clubs like his.
Mount ran a ‘Healthy Holidays Summer Camp’, in partnership with Kirklees Youth Alliance and supported by Kirklees Council in 2019, which provided sport and educational activity plus a hot meal to local children in the school holidays, and has operated similar programmes since then.
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