Le Tissier finds his range

England and Southampton legend Matthew Le Tissier last week opened a new all-weather sports pitch at Bucklers Mead Community School in Yeovil after aid from a Football Foundation grant.

This is the first phase of superb new sports facilities which will, when all completed, represent over £1,000,000 worth of investment by the school for its students and for the greater Yeovil community.
 
The facilities have been developed with the help of a £395,123 grant from the Football Foundation and is one of the largest investments in grassroots sport in the South West. The initial opening is of the third generation floodlit artificial grass football and hockey pitches.

Between now and the summer of 2011, the school plans to develop new high standard community changing facilities, a Community Sports Education Unit, fitness rooms and dance studios. It also plans to improve its cricket pitch, lay new drainage on its existing fields to allow for a range of mini pitches to be laid around the site, extend its five-a-side pitches and build a dome roof and floodlit tennis courts.
 
The Football Foundation is the country’s largest sports charity, funded with £40m from the Premier League, The FA and Government. 

Nearly £80,000 of the grant awarded to Bucklers Mead by the Foundation will also pay for a Football Development Officer who will be on-site, implementing the delivery of sporting activity and community access to the new pitches. The school was also previously successful in applying for free kit and equipment from the Foundation through its Junior Kit Scheme, as well as successfully applying for a Barclays Spaces for Sport coaching pack.