A RIBBLE Valley football club is yet to receive a £31,000 grant to improve its stadium promised to it.
Clitheroe FC was awarded a £31,296 grant by the Premier League, through the Football Stadia Improvement Fund.
The money will pay for a wide range of ground improvement works at its Shawbridge home, including new toilets.
At the club's annual general meeting on Thursday night it was revealed that the grant had yet to reach the club but that it was expected in the coming weeks.
The money will also pay for two larger changing rooms with en suite facilities and an officials’ locker room after the previous facilities of the First Division North of Northern Premier League side had fallen into in a state of disrepair and were demolished.
The work would mean that Clitheroe FC can meet the necessary ground requirements to meet higher league standards if they are ever promoted.
Funded with £5.2m each year from the Premier League, the FSIF is the country’s largest provider of grants towards projects that help improve 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.
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