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Potential 3G Pitch project:
Debenham Leisure Centre Proposed 11v11 Floodlit 3G Project
Dear Club/Organisation Representative,
I am writing to invite you, along with other local clubs and organisations, to discuss a proposal to provide an 11v11 Floodlit 3G pitch at Debenham Leisure Centre, for use by the school & the key local users in the area.
Date: Wednesday 18th June 2025
Time: 19:00
Location: Debenham Leisure Centre, Gracechurch St, Debenham, Stowmarket IP14 6BL
Football facilities have the power to strengthen local communities and improve the lives of people who play on them. That is why Suffolk FA, in conjunction with the county’s local authorities have developed a Local Football Facility Plan (LFFP) to transform the grassroots football facilities in Suffolk.
These plans enable investment in community facilities that are targeted by need, over the next 10 years. Debenham Leisure Centre has been identified as a potential site to support Debenham Leisure Centre FC & Debenham Leisure Centre Youth FC as a key partner, but also providing capacity for its use by other user groups in the area.
For clubs and organisations to benefit from this type of facility, they must ensure football is for all including engaging with a wide range of users and groups. All projects delivered through The Football Foundation (FF) and Suffolk FA will be expected to include:
The focus of the evening is to understand your local needs & to encourage you to become active partners in this project. If there is sufficient interest locally to use the new pitch to train & play on, then the project will move to the next stage of development. The evening will also enable SFA to understand other needs such as access to grass pitches, changing etc.
If you could respond by end of play Friday 6th June if you can attend or are going to send a representative. In the interim, we have created a short survey for you to let the project team know your needs on a new 3G pitch. The link to the survey is here.
I hope you take this opportunity to be involved in this project.
Yours sincerely,
Matt Stebbings
Football Development Manager
Suffolk Football Association
T 01449 616606
E [email protected]
Registered in England No 3831570
VAT Registration No 785 7006057
Registered Charity Number
1198767
Debenham Leisure Centre Proposed 11v11 Floodlit 3G Project
Dear Club/Organisation Representative,
I am writing to invite you, along with other local clubs and organisations, to discuss a proposal to provide an 11v11 Floodlit 3G pitch at Debenham Leisure Centre, for use by the school & the key local users in the area.
Date: Wednesday 18th June 2025
Time: 19:00
Location: Debenham Leisure Centre, Gracechurch St, Debenham, Stowmarket IP14 6BL
Football facilities have the power to strengthen local communities and improve the lives of people who play on them. That is why Suffolk FA, in conjunction with the county’s local authorities have developed a Local Football Facility Plan (LFFP) to transform the grassroots football facilities in Suffolk.
These plans enable investment in community facilities that are targeted by need, over the next 10 years. Debenham Leisure Centre has been identified as a potential site to support Debenham Leisure Centre FC & Debenham Leisure Centre Youth FC as a key partner, but also providing capacity for its use by other user groups in the area.
For clubs and organisations to benefit from this type of facility, they must ensure football is for all including engaging with a wide range of users and groups. All projects delivered through The Football Foundation (FF) and Suffolk FA will be expected to include:
- Equal Access for Girls - It is mandatory that all projects must have equality of access for girls, both for school & community access.
- Under-Represented Groups – It is an expectation that all projects will tackle under-representation as identified within the community engagement – examples would include sessions for diverse ethnic communities, for lower socioeconomic groups, and disabled participants. There needs to be attention to lower socio-economic groups locally, and disabled participation.
- Multi-Sport – 40% of FF projects will need to show a strong multi-sport element. An example of this would be the inclusion of a rugby shock-pad within a 3G pitch, utilised by a local rugby club(s) for junior matches and training activity within the regular programme of use (POU). Another example of a multi-sport project would be a new changing pavilion, to be used to develop other community sports (such as cricket and/or tennis) as well as football.
The focus of the evening is to understand your local needs & to encourage you to become active partners in this project. If there is sufficient interest locally to use the new pitch to train & play on, then the project will move to the next stage of development. The evening will also enable SFA to understand other needs such as access to grass pitches, changing etc.
If you could respond by end of play Friday 6th June if you can attend or are going to send a representative. In the interim, we have created a short survey for you to let the project team know your needs on a new 3G pitch. The link to the survey is here.
I hope you take this opportunity to be involved in this project.
Yours sincerely,
Matt Stebbings
Football Development Manager
Suffolk Football Association
T 01449 616606
E [email protected]
Registered in England No 3831570
VAT Registration No 785 7006057
Registered Charity Number
1198767
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May 2024
We're absolutely delighted to acknowledge funding to the tune of £10,000 from the Suffolk Climate Action Community Match Funder through Green Suffolk - helping us realise our dream to significantly increase our solar array. Earlier in the Spring, work was completed to install an astounding 152 solar panels on our large roof. The Suffolk weather isn't quite playing ball yet in providing us with lots of sunny days (we're sure they're on their way though!), but the panels are already generating valuable energy, meaning we are able to use the electricity to support the running of our wonderful community facility. |
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12/01/23 Community Centre toilet refurbishment
The work to improve the toilet facilities within the Community Centre has now been completed. This complements the work undertaken in 2022 to upgrade the Community Centre roof, windows and insulation and helps reflect the new look of the whole facility.
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February 2023 Magazine Update
25/10/22
Grant news! We've had a great number of grant successes of late and we're so pleased that the value of Debenham Sports & Leisure amongst the community is being recognised for further investment. We're so grateful to all our funders for their contributions. Cllr Matthew Hicks - Suffolk County Council Leader, and our local County Councillor granted us £496.38 of his locality funds to help us set up The Kitchen enterprise earlier in the Autumn. His generous contribution has allowed us to purchase much needed kitchen equipment to prepare much of the delicious fayre on offer. Debenham Parish Council - We are pleased to share that we have been successful in securing £500 towards our annual Fireworks event. Bringing visitors from miles around, the event is the most popular in our calendar and we look forward to making 2022 an event to remember. Asda Foundation have provided us with a boost of £1,500 to assist us with increased energy bills and help keep our facilities open for the community over the winter period. Mid Suffolk District Council awarded us £19,898.65 through their Community Development Grant. This is to purchase new fitness equipment which is suitable to meet the growing medical/ fitness/health improvement needs of our older clientele, those recovering from cardiac illnesses and people referred from the Debenham Practice to Debenham Sports & Leisure as part of its GP Referral Scheme. Suffolk Community Foundation awarded us £2,000 through the RSM Fund to fund equipment to run cardiac rehabilitation classes. |
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