MEMBER NEWS: RES – BANCHORY FOOTBALL CLUB CHANGING ROOMS GET A BOOST

September 16, 2024
MEMBER NEWS: RES – BANCHORY FOOTBALL CLUB CHANGING ROOMS GET A BOOST

Banchory Community Football Club has received a £5,000 grant from renewable energy company, RES, to help refurbish their water-damaged changing rooms.

The Club was formed in 1978 with the aim of providing positive life enhancing experiences using football to help people of Deeside and surrounding areas achieve their goals. The club now has over 600 members and has big plans to develop, including renovating one of their key sites that has suffered leaks and water damage.

Following an approach from the club and hearing about their plans, as a community club, to repair and upgrade their changing facilities in Banchory, RES was able to offer a £5,000 grant to support the refurbishment work.

Derek Thomson, Chairperson of Banchory Football Club, explains: “The investment Banchory Community Football Club (BCFC) are able to make on our King George 5th pavilion, has only been made possible due to the generosity of RES and their commitment to supporting local communities. We’re delighted to have created our partnership with RES and look forward with great optimism to seeing how both our organisations build on this initial engagement.”

RES is the world’s largest independent renewable energy company and has been at the forefront of the industry for more than 40 years. RES’ vision is a future where everyone has access to affordable zero carbon energy – and the firm has delivered more than 27GW of renewable energy projects across the globe and plans to bring more than 22GW of new capacity online in the next five years.

RES’ 16-turbine Hill of Fare Wind Farm proposal near Banchory was submitted into planning, to the Scottish Government, at the end of last year. If consented, the 105.6MW scheme is predicted to deliver a £150 million boost for the local economy – including more than 200 construction jobs and a tailored community benefit package for the local area worth £26.4 million over its lifetime. It would also reduce the equivalent of 69,000 tonnes of carbon emissions based on the grid-mix of fossil fuel, nuclear and renewable generation and achieve carbon payback within 3 years.

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