Winton Park 3G
Ardrossan Winton Rovers FC (CIC) a well established football club in North Ayrshire and well known throughout Scotland as a semi professional/junior football club. Founded in 1900 and based in the centre of the town. Winton Rovers are the heart beat of Ardrossan.
Playing every second Saturday at their Home Ground Winton Park, the club have a unique scenario that they are the only club in Ardrossan who have access to a Full Size 11 aside football pitch. There are simply no others within a town of just over 10,500 people.
With various clubs associated to the club travelling outwith the town as far as 11 miles away to play home games, Ardrossan Winton Rovers CIC made the decision that they would look to replace their perfectly good grass pitch to allow their immediate Ardrossan Community and Associated Clubs the opportunity to stay, play and represent within the town on their refurbished new Fifa Standard 3G Astroturf Pitch.
Various consultation events and surveys informed them that between a cost of between £50,000 and £70,000 was being spent outwith Ardrossan throughout each year by residents travelling to use training facilities and play games elsewhere. This was proving to be a huge barrier for participation for locals with the town of Ardrossan having significant areas of deprivation.
Timeline of 3G Astroturf Development at Winton Park
The Initial facilities are shown above that were located at Winton Park: the entrance turnstiles, terracing, Main Stand with Team Shelters and Grass Pitch. These photos were taken in June of 2024
Between early 2022 and 2024 One For The Team CIC have provided ongoing support to this project involving a partnership of Ardrossan Winton Rover's CIC and Ardrossan Community Sports Hub SCIO to develop proposals and secure funding to install a new 3g football pitch, new LED floodlights and new community changing facilities at Winton Park, Ardrossan.
One For The Team developed a comprehensive business plan for the project, provided project development assistance to the project steering group and prepared a number of successful funding applications.
The project went on site to be completed during Mid - Summer 2024, following the assembly of a successful £800,000+ capital funding package from key funders such as the Scottish Football Association, North Ayrshire Council Community Investment Fund, the Scottish Football Partnership Trust, the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the Peoples Postcode Trust and the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency Socio Economic Scheme.
In July 2024 Pitch Specialist contractors Allsports took control of the existing Winton Park site and began the removal of the grass pitch. The foundations for the new community changing facilities were also prepared and laid adjacent to the park.
By August 2024, the contractors have removed all previous grass and floodlights from the site and have started the levelling of the sub structure, putting in the drainage and running electricity provision for the 4 new floodlighting columns to be installed.
September and October 2024 saw the new shockpad, new x4 floodlighting columns and 3G artificial surface be laid at Winton Park as the project neared its practical completion.
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November 2024, Ardrossan Winton Rovers CIC and Ardrossan Community Sports Hub launch and open their new community facility at Winton Park. A Brand New 3G 11 aside Pitch, 4 LED 300 Lux Floodlighting Columns, New Modular Changing Units with Modern Cubicled Showers for all users, DDA compliant Changing Spaces, 2 New Team Shelters and various other groundworks and services having been undertaken.
“We are delighted for everyone involved at Ardrossan Winton Rovers CIC and Ardrossan Community Sports Hub to see this project come to fruition, a lot of hard work and time has gone into this and we look forward to seeing the benefits to the local community.”
