A youth football club in Macclesfield have launched a crowdfunder to buy a ride on mower.

Tytherington Juniors FC, who play at rugby drive in Tytherington, want to purchase the new piece of kit to improve the state of their pitch.

They have launched a fundraiser to help pay for it, and are already ten per cent of the way there.

Club Secretary Mat O'Brien explained why help from the community is sought:

"Due to cuts in budgets, the community playing fields are struggling under the differing weather conditions," he wrote on GoFundMe.

"The grass is growing quicker than ever but the current way of working is not keeping up with the growth - this means that continually our players are finding it difficult to play football on the pitches.

"On weekends, we have over 220 players using the facility but at times ... they are playing on a pitch, that is not at its best for them. The drainage is first class. We would also like to hold other events / games on the facility long term and having access to our own mower would really help with this.

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"ANSA are doing a brilliant job in maintaining them, in difficult circumstances but we as a club want the fields to be perfect, or as near to this as we can get for our players and for our community.

The club prides itself on providing accessible, and affordable football. And a huge number of people attended their recent Tythy Fives Festival. (Image - TJFC Facebook)

"We have recently met with Richard Campey from Macclesfield business Campey Turf Care and he generously offered to sell us a ride on mower at an unbelievable price (£1500), we are reluctant to use club funds for this so ideally we want to try and tap into the community's generosity and see if we can gather some donations.

"Richard also offered some incredible insight and details on how we can maintain the fields properly going forward but the cost for the machinery to do this, would be upwards of £25,000.

"Richard has kindly offered to both provide a new battery, clean up and sharpen the blades on the mower.

"We appreciate the financial world we live in currently so if we need to purchase the mower as a club, we will do this but we thought no harm in asking,. we obviously already pay to rent the exclusive use of Rugby Drive, but we need to do more.

"We have been blessed with three volunteers having already undertaken their FA groundskeeper course, so are qualified to use the machinery - we have the relevant insurance in place, wwe just need to some help.

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"The new piece of equipment could also be sponsored by a local business, in return for a sponsorship package promoting their business.

"Thank you to the community for their support."

Macclesfield: You can donate towards the £1550 target on THIS LINK.

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