The Lincoln City Foundation has opened a new community hub
It will help to expand it's social impact work in the local area
The Lincoln City Foundation has opened a new community hub today which will expand it's social impact work in the local area.
The Club's charity runs engagement programmes all over the county.
It's taken years of planning, and cost £2.6 million pounds to build the facility on the back of the Stacey West stand.
Today the club's CEO Liam Scully spoke in a presentation of that sense of community:
"The real reason why we are standing here today is down to the efforts of countless people, organisations and institutions all pulling together to make a single vision happen."
The Foundation Chief Executive Martin Hickerton tells us this will enable them to do more:
"It's a wonderful milestone but we are starting to think about what comes next for us as well.
"Not just as a football club who are thriving, but what we do off the pitch with our community groups."
Martin tells us more about what they do:
"We want to help the community to be happier, heathier and inspired.
"Our community is really diverse - so we work with boys and girls to play football.
"We work with older people, we have a cancer care and recuperation programme called fighting fit.
"We have male mental health programmes and we work in prison.
"Often we've been struggling to find space to deliver. The programmes have really increased in the last five years, especially since the pandemic.
"Our charitable income has gone up two fold and we've increased participants by 50 % in that time as well so we are growing."
Today, the club also marked it's 140th anniversary.