Fundraising is essential for maintaining the overall operation of the club and making sure that we can provide valuable services to our local community.

Our fundraising this year has also helped us improve our facilities, purchase essential new equipment and allowed us to increase teams.

North Tyneside Council secured £1.5 million of funding that organisations in the North West of the Borough were invited to bid for. The project is funded by the Government’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund through the North of Tyne Combined Authority and is now administered by the North East Combined Authority.

The UK Shared Prosperity Funding (UKSPF) was made available to any voluntary and community sector organisations, including individual resident’s groups or youth organisations that provide services in the following wards:

• Camperdown
• Weetslade
• Longbenton

The funding on offer ranged from large-scale projects to smaller grants for individual residents and residents’ organisations. North Tyneside Council is the lead organisation and is partnering with North Tyneside VODA to deliver the programme.