Dewsbury Celtic set up crowd funder to help fund pitch improvements
Dewsbury Celtic have revealed plans to improve the club’s playing surfaces and have launched a crowd funder to help them come up with the money needed to turn plans into reality.
Celtic will be investing substantially to improve the Park Parade pitches, but needs help in order to fund some of this work.
This had led them to opening a crowd funder, which can be found at https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rugby-pitch-improvement?
The aim is to raise £30,000 and in the early days since the launch the fund is approaching £1,500.
Dewsbury Celtic RLFC is an amateur community rugby league club run by volunteers, providing sport and social facilities to the community of Westown, in Dewsbury and the surrounding area.
The club runs nine junior rugby league teams with 150 plus children aged from three to 18, boys and girls, involved every week in the season. This is alongside having three adult teams with 70 members.
The aim is to raise funds to improve their two playing pitches and training pitch, so they can support the players on a surface that is safe fit for purpose.
Other than cutting no improvement works have taken place on the pitches for more than 20 years and in parts they are becoming unsafe.
The training pitch has recently been vandalised by having a large section of turf cut out of it.
Celtic aim to use the Crowdfundng money raised to improve the levelling of the pitch, the surface constitution and the long term protection and coverage of the area. This will ensure it is fit for purpose for current and future players and local schools who the club work in partnership with.
Celtic, meanwhile, has launched its first honours board containing the names of all their old boys who have gone on to play professionally.
To qualify a player had to have signed from Celtic, Westtown Boys, St John Fishers Old Boys, or St Paulinus and go on and make a first team appearance.
The list of star names includes the most recent, Paul Foulstone and Marshall Land in 2025, alongside legends like Paul Sykes, Alex Walmsley, Francis Cummins, Deryck Fox and Roy Powell.