Whitehaven AFC thank sponsor Responsive for helping with costs

Whitehaven AFC recently had signs used to help emergency vehicles access the ground damaged - a club sponsor has now come forward to offer financial aid. 

Lee Grears, owner of the firm Responsive, who sponsors teams, the astro turf and the club's yearly festival, sent £100 to make necessary repairs for the emergency access signage which was damaged beyond repair. 

The club have thanked the company and their owner, Lee, for investing the money into the community facilities. 

Luke Johnstone, of Whitehaven AFC, said: "He got in touch to say that he'd sent £100 into our bank for the sign so we could get some new wood and some new signs made. 

Luke Johnstone (Image: Supplied)

"He's got a business in the area, he sponsors teams, advertising boards and our yearly festivals. He puts quite a bit of money into the club and has now sorted this issue for us which is a massive help obviously. 

"We're really grateful for him doing it, he puts a lot of money into the club already which really helps us and the fact that he's done that off his own back is amazing because it's meant that we can get it repaired and we don't have to take the funds from elsewhere when we're on very tight funds at the moment. It means our funds can be used for something else."

After the signs had been vandalised, the club took to social media to share their frustrations about the costs of the damage. 

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On social media Whitehaven AFC posted: "It's stupid and thoughtless if you ask me, especially when there’s CCTV on the Astro lighting column closest to the signs."

Lee Grears of Responsive (Image: Supplied)

They continued: "Really wish people would think. Sometimes it feels like such a waste of time. It feels silly but these signs cost us money, as did the posts, and the concrete, and my time of concreting them in and digging the holes."