Fulham players Simon Davies, David Stockdale and Zoltan Gera handed over a cheque to Sports Action Zone.
This season the Premier League Places for Players initiative has supplied each top flight team with £20,000 to give to a charity of their choice.
With the help of first team players Davies, Stockdale and Gera, the Fulham Football Club Foundation announced that North Southwalk and North Lambeth Sports Action Zone (SAZ), would benefit from the fund.
The Sports Action Zone team works hard to unite new and current partners in the Lambeth community, so that they can develop and coordinate an array of groups, locations and people to participate in physical activities.
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The funds, donated by the Premier League and the Fulham Football Club Foundation, will be used to install new floodlights on the new Nike donated 4G pitch, which is based at the Lilian Baylis Community Hub in Lambeth, where earlier this year the Fulham FC Foundation launched their Premier Men's Health programme.
Brian Dickens, Sports Action Zone Director, said: "I would like to thank everyone at Fulham Football Club for the fantastic donation of £20,000 towards the addition of Floodlights for the Community football pitch at the Lillian Baylis Community Hub.
"This contribution will allow our local community to access the pitch and play football all year round, which has been a massive barrier in the past."
Looking ahead, Fulham FC Foundation hopes to work in partnership with SAZ, Active Communities Network and Nike, as part of the Sports for Social Change network, which will encourage those from differing backgrounds to become more readily involved in physical activity.
POSITIVE INFLUENCE
The funding of the site will look to encourage those not yet involved in using the amenities, in more readily doing so. The presentation of the cheque to Dickens will highlight to those in the local area, that the partnerships being formed will be delivering more services that will be of benefit to young people and those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Steven Day, Chief Executive of the Fulham Football Club Foundation, said: "Fulham FC Foundation already works to engage the community in Lambeth in projects that will have a positive influence on their health and social activity.
"The partnership between our team and SAZ, to create an even more dynamic area (within the Lilian Baylis Community Hub) in which we can focus our hard work, will, I'm sure, give us a more constructive base to work from."
Dickens added: "This is just the first part of an ongoing partnership between the Sport Action Zone and Fulham Football Club, both around the Community Hub, as well as many other projects we are intending to collaborate on in the future."
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