Dewsbury Moor Sports Club - Hot Shower Campaign

Who are we?

• Dewsbury Moor Sports Club is a not-for-profit making organisation providing sport and social facilities to the community of Dewsbury Moor and surrounding area. Our primary sport is Rugby League (Dewsbury Moor Amateur Rugby League Football Club) but we also provide facilities for the following: 
• Dewsbury Moor Amateur Football Club (newly formed for the 2022 season)
• Saville Bowman archery club http://www.savile-bowmen.org.uk/
• Over 50s social club
• Yorkshire Phoenix Table Football Club, playing as Dewsbury Moor TFC  

We have circa 400 players and 600 members. 

We have 17 junior rugby league teams with circa 250 children aged from 3 years to 18 – Boys and Girls  

We also have 2 Open Age mens rugby teams consisting of circa 50 players 

And 1 Open Age Womens rugby team of circa 40 players 

We also have 2 Open Age football teams – 1 mens team, 1 womens team – circa 50 players l 

Dewsbury Moor is a Super Output area and is in the bottom 10% of the most deprived areas in the UK. Dewsbury Moor Sports club support the residents of Dewsbury Moor in many ways including providing a social hub for the whole family. 

 We provide: 

• Support local families when they are in times of need/hardship 
• Keeps children (3 years to 18 years / girls and boys) off the streets 
• Keeps children and adults (Open Age teams) fit and healthy 
• Enables children and adults to develop as individuals, instilling confidence and self-belief 
• Encourages team work and the belief that there is strength in numbers
• Provide role model support and mentorship to the youth in our care 
• Uses local business as suppliers 
• Employ local people (mainly under 25s) 

Why are we crowdfunding?

Last year we set up a crowdfunder to convert unused space into changing rooms. Thats now been done but in order to power the showers in those new changing rooms we need a new hot water system as the one we have is 15 years old and is not powerful enough for the increase in demand  

How we’ll spend the money raised

We will use it to buy a new boiler and water heating system

Community impact 

Having the additional changing facilities will:

• Provide a better match day experience - who doesnt like a nice hot shower after they've played sport?! 
• Improve hygiene in the club – plenty of hot showers = clean players in the clubhouse  
• The better facilities we have, the more children and adults will be attracted to the club and will play sport 
• We will also provide female specific changing facilities which will encourage females to part take in sport   
• Improving our facilities to our current sporting partners and encourage new sporting and social partners to join our club which contributes to our sustainability plans.

The outcomes we want to achieve are: 

• Increased participation in the junior game especially for girls aged 12-18 
• Retention of existing players
• Provide changing facilities which are accessible for all 
• Allowing the existing female only changing rooms to be just that (at the moment we cant accommodate this as we don’t have enough changing rooms) 
• Improve hygiene by allowing everyone that plays the opportunity to shower after the game

Make our match day experience a good one so that families want to come to the club, play sport, spend time with their family and friends in a nice safe environment. 

Thank you...Please help us again....

Back in 2024 you lovely lot helped us raise £20k+ to build the additional changing facilities, now in 2025 we are hoping that with your help again we can achieve our target of £15k for funds toward the new boiler and water heating system.

With such fantastic support the donations made our commitment to keep the club going a reality and without your donations it would not have been possible! 

Please help us achieve our next project of providing a new boiler and water heating system to our changing rooms

How you can play your part

There are four simple ways to help us reach our target, and make this project a reality.

1. Make a pledge. Don’t delay if you’re going to support us because momentum is key to our success!

2. Spread the word. Share our project on your social media pages and tell the world to get behind us! The more people we reach, the more support we will get.

3. Offer rewards. Get involved if you are a local business by donating things we can offer to our supporters. We will give you a shout out!

4. Fundraise for us. If you want to run your own fundraiser – maybe a sponsored activity or similar – use the 'contact project' button at the top of our page to let us know. Setting up your own page only takes a few minutes and you won’t need any bank details. Just a fun idea!