Spennymoor Town Football Club

With thanks to Catherine Priestly and the Northern Echo.

A TOWN football club is enjoying a change in fortunes which it hopes to share with the community.

Spennymoor Town Football Club is performing well on and off the pitch since former Aston Villa footballer, Bradley Groves, took over as chairman during the summer, councillors heard on Tuesday November 3.  The club has been gradually growing stronger since supporters teamed up with Evenwood Town to replace the town’s former club, Spennymoor United, which folded in 2005.

Vice chairman, Alan Courtney, told Spennymoor Town Council’s finance and general purposes committee that Mr Groves has transformed the club.  The Brewery Field ground has been improved with further developments planned, including the rebuilding of a clubhouse.  He said: “We are looking to the future with tremendous optimism.”  The team is top of the Northern League, has ambitions of FA Vase glory and its home gate of 420 is the league’s second best average attendance.

The council had been invited to join the club’s new sponsorship scheme- the 100 Club- for £500.  But members said that was not suitable as they could not accept benefits, including two free season tickets.  Members considered donating the tickets to local children but heard the club plans to give away free junior match tickets via schools so it was unnecessary.

The instead agreed to pay £500 for an advertising board at the ground to promote the town hall and donate a £500 grant towards plans for better youth facilities and activities.

Mr Courtney said: “We want to hold after school clubs, healthy eating classes, we want to get involved with schools, run summer training for seven to 19-year-olds working with top professional coaches, we want Spennymoor Town FC to be an umbrella club for youth teams in the area.

“Next season we will have an under 18s team in a competitive league.  “We hope to provide all the things the community wants in a sporting environment.  “This will also hopefully feed into the senior team through an academy so our players are from the town, as a successful club needs success on the pitch.”

Coun Bill Waters said: “I think Spennymoor deserves a good football team, it uplifts the town if they are winners.”

Coun Kevin Thompson added: “The club looks to have a community spirit, they aren’t going to extend themselves so much they fail, there is a common sense with their fiscal arrangements so I feel confident about supporting them.”

And Coun Jim Graham said: “Its good to see the club in positive times, the youth activities and ambitions are especially good and worth supporting.”

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Spennymoor Town are pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Jacobs as Head of Commercial at the club. 

Mark brings a wealth of experience gained through his involvement with Sheffield Wednesday.  

Marks job at Sheffield Wednesday was to bring in new customers for corporate hospitality and also looking after existing customers. He was initially brought in to look after a new hospitality lounge which he built up from zero to £200,000 in his first season and generated around £1 million in sales. 

Mark was responsible for 3 levels of hospitality within the club and also selling executive boxes; these packages were either by match by match basis or sold on a seasonal basis. 

He was also responsible for the three levels of match sponsor per match, the main match day sponsor for twenty guests, the match ball sponsor for ten guests and the match associate for ten guests.

Additionally the role involved selling perimeter boards and advertising within the match day programme to various companies and kit sponsorship for the players and the manager of the team.

There are a number of targets laid out as part of Spennymoor Towns ongoing development and these include securing sponsorship for both the shirts and the main grandstand.  Alongside the sponsorship Mark will also be looking to develop corporate relationships and generally build ties between the football club and the local community. 

Additional responsibilities will include organising events.  With the proposed development of the new social club he will have the perfect opportunity to raise the profile of the club further.

Mark will take up his role on the 1^st November and we would like to welcome him to the club and wish him every success in his new role.

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Spennymoor Town Chairman Brad Groves has tonight outlined plans for the development of the clubhouse.   It is expected that the plans will be submitted to the planning authorities in the next two weeks for consideration. 

The proposed plans outline a two storey, high specification modular building to be erected on the site of the old clubhouse.  The site has already been cleared ready for the development.  There will be a 150 capacity clubhouse downstairs with a function room on the upper level with a similar capacity.

Subject to approval, it is anticipated that the new clubhouse will be open early in the New Year.

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The clubs replica shirts are now available for purchase.  The traditional black and white shirt along with the white and red away tops can be ordered.  Polo shirts, warm up suits and jackets and other items are also available.  Please go to the merchandise page for details of prices and how to order.

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As a trial run, commencing this coming bank holiday Monday(31st August)when we entertain Bishop Auckland, we will be having a “happy hours” between the hours of 12 noon and 2pm in the upstairs supporters bar at The Brewery Field situated in the main stand.
John Smiths £1.50 per pint and Fosters £1.70 per pint. There will also be a promotion on bottles with prices from £1.
Sky Sports TV is also on a large plasma screen.

If this is a success and proves popular then we plan to keep it for the foreseeable future for games.
All Saturday games, Happy Hours will be 12 noon till 2pm and Midweek games will be from 6pm until 7.30pm.

Please ensure you come along and make this a success and the club will be happy for it to continue.

Spennymoor Town Football Club does, however, recommend you drink responsibly.

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