History of Bolton Woods Junior Football Club

The club was formed in 1988 when approached by a group of women who were sick of children playing football outside of their homes and causing them problems of the football hitting their cars and the balls going into their gardens, we said to them if you bring the children down to the local community centre we would talk to them and see what we could do if anything, a group of about eighteen children came down to see me as General Manager and I told them if they were serious I would try and put them into a league and channel their energy in a more organized way. It proved so successful that the eighteen soon grow to over 300 young people of all ages both boys & Girls and of all cultures and our sporting journey begun.

We now have over 350 both Girls and Boys. We have won numerous trophies including winning the Yorkshire Cup three years running and have produced a number of professional players which include Lewis Emmanuel, Craig Midgley, Chris Brandon and Des Hamilton who have all worn the colours of Bolton Woods Juniors plus a lot more who have gone on to pay in the top flight of the amateur game.

I spend up to 20 hours a week, most of that time is spent applying for funding which is used to sustain us for future years, we have been fortunate to secure over nearly 3/4 of a million pounds from the Football Foundation to build an all-singing-all-dancing club House with some of the best facilities in the Junior Game plus a brand new drainage system for our 5½ hectares of land, we have also been lucky in securing funding from the Council and other charities and our latest funding amount came from Team England which is the charitable arm of the Football Association.

t is not hard to be motivated when you see young people actively engaged in a sporting activity instead of what they were doing way back in 1988 that was marauding around the streets.

MAKE SPORT, NOT CRIME, A CHOICE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Bolton Woods JFC

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