Energy firm power up Kippax Welfare juniors

A four-figure grant from a renewable energy firm has given community club Kippax Welfare’s youngest players a boost.
Kippax Welfare's youngest players have received a welcome boost. Picture by Gary Longbottom.Kippax Welfare's youngest players have received a welcome boost. Picture by Gary Longbottom.
Kippax Welfare's youngest players have received a welcome boost. Picture by Gary Longbottom.

The club have used a £1,000 cash injection from Banks Renewables, via the Banks Community Fund, to buy new training tops for their under-sixes squad and playing tops for the under-eights.

Kippax run junior teams at almost every level from sixes through to under-18s, with around 25 players in each age group squad.

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Players are drawn from Kippax, Allerton Bywater, Methley and Mickletown.

Chris Longfellow, coach of the under-sixes, said: “Most of our youngest recruits have obviously never played the game before and don’t have the kit they need to play it to begin with.

“While this is never a barrier to new players joining us, having matching training and playing kit which they’ll be able to use for a good couple of years will really help everyone feel like they belong to a team and will be great for morale.”

Banks Renewables owns and operates the nearby Hook Moor wind farm and is the company behind the proposed Barnsdale Solar Energy Park.

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Spokesman Lewis Stokes said: “Kippax Welfare is a fantastic example of everything a community sports club should be and we’re very pleased to be supporting its ambition to offer as much as it can to its young players.”