Local football clubs have been gaining a lot of praise for the work they are doing in the community, Tuxtra went to Guisborough Town to see how things operate.
Guisborough Town operate in the Northern League Division one step four of the English Football pyramid, they play their football at King George V stadium and are ran by match day volunteers.
Guisborough Town have teams from the men’s all the way down to Under 7’s junior football all of the junior sides offer a pathway to football.
The club has often been praised for the work in the surrounding community and how much work the club give back to their supporters.
As well as this, the club have also hosted free training sessions to Liverpool and Germany U21’s which has given local children the chance to meet heroes such as Sadio Mane and Joshua Kimmich among many others.
Furthermore, the club also host frequent AGM’s inviting spectators along to speak to club officials making fans feel they have an input on the way the clubs run on a day- to -day basis.
The club currently sits eighth in the Table and first team analyst Nathan Massingham feels it’s been a good season so far.
Nathan said: “Originally I’m a Middlesbrough fan but supporting and being involved with the Guisborough first team is incredible.”
“You feel like a member of the club, a feeling which I perhaps did not experience when supporting Middlesbrough.
“You go to the games and you’re often engaging with people you know, even opposition games a lot of the time you see familiar faces around the ground who you know and can interact with.
” I chose to do this job for the club as the players give a lot for this club.
“They are playing often two or three times a week alongside working a full time job, so me and a few others felt it was only right to play our part and give something back to the players and the club who give so much to us.”
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