Luton's Walking Football Club requested funding to enable the delivery of two free walking football sessions targeted specifically at women aged in their forties. The funding was to cover advertising, facility hire and coaching staff.
These sessions were designed to attract new members from a demographic who were maybe denied football playing opportunities in their youth or who were considered not good enough to play fast paced contact team sports. The opportunity provided older women, many of whom had stopped exercising, the chance to try organised team sport again or for the first time, and make new friends.
It is also hoped that the initiative will increase membership to the club's women's program, create sustainable growth for the club, and develop stronger community ties by engaging with a wider demographic.
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So who are Luton Town Walking Football Club? Well we are a bunch of individuals, many Luton Town season ticket holders, who still have a love of playing the beautiful game. At an age where your pharmacist is on first name terms, and the joys of garden center fertiliser packs, and flora, beckon with increasing regulatory, we've discovered, by some miracle, that those boots still fit and, with a little brush up, new laces an extended lease of life awaits us with a more sedate version of the beautiful game here at Luton Town Walking Club.
