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entered a ground share agreement with
local rivals Baldock Town who also play
in the South Midlands League Premier
Division.
We also have a thriving Petanque
club on our grounds with well
appointed “courts” and indeed we hold
international events in that particular
sport. We also host Bedfordshire darts
and they regularly hold county matches
in our large function hall. Our aim
remains to have a football match at home
each week and have other sports on at
the ground when we can.
Despite the drop in level on the
football field we try to maintain our
standards and we operate as we have
always have done and we maintain
our board room hospitality to the same
standards as before and also try to
maintain these same standards on the
pitch although that can be difficult at
times.
I have found to some surprise that
the general standard of football at this
level is pretty good with some very good
players so it has the advantage of some
good games each week without the long
distance travel that is the norm at higher
levels.
We are always looking for help in the
running of the club with the myriad of
jobs that continue to present themselves
to us and we are always looking for
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people who can bring their own skills to
bare to push the club forward in present
and new directions. We as the committee
that run the club continue to do so on a
purely voluntary basis at all levels.
Looking forward; with the FA change
in the rules governing the change in
dressing room size that is the seasons hot
topic in non-league circles we will have
to do some fairly major rebuilding to
retain our “C” grade which is by far the
highest in this league and more than the
league above us, but we realise that to get
promotion back up the pyramid we will
have to carry out work on the officials
dressing room size which is just a little
too small for the new requirements.
The ground is also in need of some
modernisation and future proofing and
to carry out these tasks we have put
a course of action in place to generate
the funds that will be necessary before
we can even start to look for grants and
funding from other sources hopefully
within the FA.
We are also looking at projects
outside of Football to try to provide skills
and motivation to young people who
have had a difficult start in life. We hope
all of these plans will fall into place in the
next few months, securing football and a
centre for the community at Arlesey for
the foreseeable future.
Article provided by Football Secretary
Chris Sterry