The fans of football
club Kettering Town’ have turned to online crowdfunding to raise the money that
will save the club from closure. The club has debts of £58,000, so the fans
decided to use JustGiving's new crowdfunding tool. They have set up a campaign
and invited football fans from around the world to contribute. Within its first
few hours the campaign had raised £3,000, including from fans at many other
clubs. One Crystal Palace fan who has contributed said: “I know how it feels
for your club to be threatened with extinction. Glad I’m able to help save this
club.” A Manchester United fan said: "I'm a Manchester United fan, but
also a fan of the game. No club should be wound up!" Kettering Town FC was
formed in 1872 and is a central part of the town and its community. It is
currently in Southern League Division one. The campaign aimed to raise £20,000
towards the £58,000 debts. It has now achieved that goal. Mark Severn, head of
Kettering Town Supporters Club, said: “With the likes of Gareth Bale earning
£300,000 a week it seems unfair that our club could go under for the amount he
roughly makes in two days. "We’re campaigning through outreach on Twitter,
thanks to enormous help from Matthew Timms of Footy Accumulators and their
magnificent army of followers, to save Kettering Town Football Club ourselves,
and discovering JustGiving’s crowdfunding tool has given us a great starting
point to help make this happen.”
JustGiving's new community crowdfunding
platform is designed to help bring people in local communities together in
order to fund social projects at grassroots levels.
See more at: http://www.fundraising.co.uk/news/2013/10/14/kettering-town-fc-saved-crowdfunding-campaign#sthash.Q6m6H42l.dpuf
(Source: UK Fundraising)
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