Light Up The Ground

Aim

We need to provide more outside activities at night and need to expand the current floodlight provision to cover the entire grassed area.

The Story So Far

April 2025 saw the opening of our brand-new Community Hub for local people on the Clifton Lane Sports site, to provide residents in the centre of Rotherham with access to sports activities such as rugby and cricket, throughout the year.  The TCF Hub also runs a youth and social club in the evenings throughout the year. 

During the day it offers sports and social activities for older residents, such as walking cricket and rugby, as well as courses to support young people and their families understand food and fitness and how to eat more healthily.

The TCF have provided an extensive range of programmes, promoting rugby, health and fitness for children, since it was formed in 2005. Post Covid the programmes have expanded to include support for young people struggling with their mental health, and projects to promote careers in sports infrastructure, as well as work with NEET and ARNA students across a range of schools. We also offer social and health support for older community members, through our walking rugby and cricket programmes, health and fitness advice, alongside social activities linked to these sessions. 

The new TCF Hub enables the TCF to expand all this provision, for children and for the wider community. It also allows us to offer other community groups a space for their activities such as M.A.T.T. (Men Actually Talking Together, a local mens mental health group) and Disability Sport Yorkshire, who have worked with us previously, based in the Clubhouse at the Rugby Club, for which TCF has had to pay a fee. 

What Happens Next

The work already done by TCF is across some of the most disadvantaged wards, not just in Rotherham, but in the whole of the UK. The area has an IMB decile of 2 with over 40% of children in Rotherham classified as living in poverty. School surveys have shown that more than 1 in 3 children in Rotherham are classified as overweight or obese, and these are the children who are often prevented from participating in extra-curricular sport because of the costs involved. The new Community Hub provides a base for both sport focused youth work, but also a centre for expanding provision for all aspects of youth activities as there is no other provision within walking distance of Clifton Lane.

We now want to provide more outside activities at night and need to expand the current floodlight provision to cover the entire grassed area.  This will entail adding two more floodlights to the 4 already in place and increasing the power of the existing lights.  We will then have access to facilities 12 months per annum.  The existing lights are already LED and the new ones will also be LED.

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 8th July 2026 at 1:27pm