{"id":3591,"date":"2024-02-13T11:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T10:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityfinanceireland.com\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2024-02-13T12:13:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T11:13:56","slug":"ballymacash-sports-academy-just-getting-started-with-social-finance-funds-from-community-finance-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityfinanceireland.com\/ballymacash-sports-academy-just-getting-started-with-social-finance-funds-from-community-finance-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballymacash Sports Academy Just Getting Started with Social Finance Funds from Community Finance Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ballymacash Sports Academy, based in Ballymacash outside Lisburn, Co. Antrim has been able to install a new floodlit 3G pitch, car park and spectator fencing thanks to a Social Finance loan from Community Finance Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is just the start of the club&#8217;s ambitious developments. As Chairman Phil Trimble comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-plain is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#998715\" class=\"has-inline-color\">\u201cIt feels like the building work going up is us just getting started. There is an unstoppable force, an army of volunteers, coaches, people behind the scenes and our committee who put in phenomenal efforts to make the club what it is. It&#8217;s a brilliant place to be with a great vibe. It&#8217;s all really really positive.<\/mark><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to providing sporting facilities on the pitch for their members, they have teamed up with local community development organisations to create a community garden and allotments which has had lasting social impact for the groups involved. One such community group led by Karl Bothwell said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#998715\" class=\"has-inline-color\">\u201cWe&#8217;ve been kindly welcomed in by the Ballymacash Sports Academy. Our young adults come here three days per week and they work at the allotments, planting vegetables and then they take the vegetables they have grown and donate them to local foodbanks and homeless charities.&#8221; <\/mark><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/communityfinanceireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ballymacash-10-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3594\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Two young adults tending to their allotments at the Ballymacash Sports Academy <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Since 2016, Community Finance Ireland has supported 166 sports clubs, social enterprises and organisations from across the community and voluntary sector in Northern Ireland, with a total of \u00a318.1 million in social finance loans, with \u00a35.6m of that going to sporting organisations like Ballymacash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Smyth, Client Manager at Community Finance Ireland added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#998715\" class=\"has-inline-color\">&#8220;In the case of Ballymacash Sports Academy, the improved facilities has led to an increased sporting success by the club and greater usage by local schools and groups. The collective ambitions and efforts of the committee and the wider community is admirable and one that we were keen to support with social finance funding. Often capital projects like this one creates new facilities, but it also helps build momentum and shows that the club committee is delivering on the club development plan<\/mark>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the BBC&#8217;s coverage of the Ballymacash Rangers v Glentoran match on 2 February, the broadcaster kindly featured the community&#8217;s efforts. 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