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morecambe ladies and girls need your help!
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help us find a home
We have over 100 girls and ladies with not enough room to play!
- Football helps with both physical and mental health
- We need pitches for all ages, with facilities
- Grass or 3G would be great
- Do you know anywhere that might be suitable?
- Could you donate to our appeal so we can buy and/or build our own pitch?
Morecambe Ladies and Girls FC are asking for help to find them somewhere to play.
Girls’ football is the fastest growing participation sport in the world, and the Lancaster and Morecambe district is no exception.
Sophie Fish, founder of Morecambe Ladies FC, started the girls section in 2016 with a single team comprised of local girls of all ages.
Since then it has grown to 10 teams across 9 age groups from 7-16, with the club now having to turn away up to 5 new girls a month.
“Its very frustrating”, says Sophie. “We have coaches ready to help, and want to get as many girls playing football as possible for the physical and mental health benefits it offers, as well as the life lessons they learn and sense of friendship that comes from being part of a team. We just can’t find enough space to play.”
The club currently has to train and play across 6 different sites, many of which are not ideal.
Club Chair Nick Barrett explains “Because girls’ football has developed so quickly over a short space of time, we find the decent public pitches are all taken by longer established mens’ or boys’ teams and there is no space for us. The local Secondary Schools we have approached don’t want to know. We therefore find ourselves scrabbling around trying to organise matches on primary school fields and splitting our club across multiple venues. Whilst we appreciate the schools letting us use their land, the pitches aren’t up to the minimum standards the FA expects for grassroots football and don’t have the basic facilities like toilets and changing rooms that our girls deserve.”
“We have over 100 girls playing across our teams, and given the fact that the women’s Euros this summer is bound to inspire a whole new generation of female footballers, we could easily double that in the next six months if we just had somewhere to play.”
The club is ambitious and through grants and fundraising would ultimately love to buy or rent its own home, big enough to house all the teams, but so far has had no success in finding a site.
“Whilst things have improved a bit since the days when men chased us off pitches because they thought we shouldn’t be playing football at all, its still not fair that girls have more limited access to sporting facilities just because of their sex,” Sophie says. “If anyone knows of anywhere suitable, or thinks they could help us to find or buy somewhere, we would love to hear from you.”
what you can do
Ring Nick on 07814 276448 or email marketing@morecambeladiesandgirlsfc.org if you know of a pitch/pitches we can use
donate at https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/morecambegirlsfc so we can buy or build our own home pitch.
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