Southgate Olympic Amateur Football Club secretary Kevin Taylor on plans to expand the Winchmore Hill-based side

It’s a busy time of the year at Southgate Olympic as we prepare to begin our 93rd season.

We have been regulars at Clowes Sports Ground in Barrowell Green, Winchmore Hill, since the 1960s. As well as providing adult football on Saturday afternoons and for veterans on Sunday mornings, we are now looking to expand the club and provide facilities for walking football for men over 50 and women over 40, as well as starting up a new women’s eleven-a-side team with the hope of putting them in a league for the 2026/27 season.

The club is also keen to finalise details of a new 30-year lease at the ground with Enfield Council. Obtaining this lease will put the club is in a good position to celebrate its 100th year in 2033 as well as providing sporting facilities for the next generation of players and a possible hub for local community use.

A new long-term lease would be great for the club as it will open a lot more doors for us in terms of attracting funding through organisations like the Football Foundation, as currently we rely on local businesses to sponsor our kit and will again be looking to attract sponsorship for the new season.

For the past couple of seasons we have also had links to charities like Alzheimer’s, Cystic Fibrosis, The Ben Kinsella Trust and North London Hospice on our shirts, and we hope to continue helping charities. We are having a community fun day in March in aid of the local hospice, which is directly opposite our ground, including a five-a-side tournament, a walking football tournament, ‘beat the keeper’, inflatables and much more.

We hope to be able to provide more opportunities for the local community to help with both mental and physical wellbeing as well as social events at the club, like quiz and darts nights.

We are always looking at different ways of fundraising and one idea we have had is to sell advertising space on our website to local businesses, and anyone buying a space for £50 would then be automatically entered into a random draw to ‘sponsor’ one of the team’s shirts or tracksuit tops for the forthcoming season.

We are also always looking for new players and are still one of the cheapest clubs in the region when it comes to annual membership and match fees; we hope to have four teams playing in the Southern Amateur League in the 2025/26 season which starts in September, so if anyone reading this interested in playing or being involved, just get in touch with us and get along to pre-season training.

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