KIRKLINGTON ROAD, RAINWORTH, NOTTS NG21 0JY
How the ground looked before development. What a contrast to now!!
WHAT YOU WILL FIND
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Covered seating on one side for 159 plus wheelchair area, and covered standing for 200 with seating for 62 opposite - total seating 221.
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Floodlights to FA Vase entry standard.
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Capacity around 2,000
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Concrete hardstanding on all four sides, and substantial banking behind Welfare end goal alongside new pavilion.
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Fixed spectator barrier in compliance with FA Cup / Vase requirements
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Brand new pavilion incorporating dressing rooms, office, refreshment bar serving hot and cold drinks, confectionery and some hot food (pies etc). Ladies, gents and disabled toilets to rear of pavilion. Extra covered standing under pavilion overhang.
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Hospitality suites for match sponsors and visiting officials.
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Secondary training/youth pitch with separate pavilion adjacent and training lights, with small sided pitch to be put in shortly for U10s and below.
FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED
ADMISSION
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£4.00 NCEL 1st X1 League Games Adults - OAPS/Children £2
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FA CUP / FA VASE and Notts Senior Cup games as dictated by ruling bodies
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Matchday programme - £1.00
THE STORY BEHIND THE GATES
Memorial entrance gates
On reaching the ground you will immediately see before you a set of ornate iron gates, including an inscription dedicated to Alan Wright. Here briefly is the story behind the gates.
Alan was the club Chairman, former secretary and groundsman and just about everything else as far as Rainworth MW FC was concerned. He died in November, 2002, at the age of 69. Well known throughout the county and beyond for his involvement in the game, he had also been a respected businessman in Sutton-in-Ashfield, where he owned SIA toolmakers until his retirement.
Alan first became involved with Rainworth MW FC at the end of his national service with the Sherwood Foresters and played in goal for the club for 19 years until the age of 40, when he finished playing and joined the club committee to, as he said at the time, "put something back". That attitude summed Alan up to a tee, for he was one of life's givers and never a taker. The amount he gave to this football club is something that perhaps only he knew - not only in terms of cash, but of utter committment to the cause.
He became club secretary in 1981, in succession to George Clough and was thrown in at the deep end, for in his first season he found himself carrying out all the administrative work involved with that historic FA Vase run to Wembley - work which meant neglecting his business at the time.
Elected onto the committee of the Notts Alliance, he became Chairman of the league during the 1980s and remained in office at the time of his death. Having survived an earlier heart attack five years ago, at the ground during an FA Vase game, he found it difficult to take things easy and most daylight hours would find him lavishing care and attention on the ground where he had become more or less, a full time groundsman. Alan was also the driving force behind the launch of the Nottinghamshire Senior League, but while he had hoped to see Rainworth as founder members that was not to be.
Many had differences of opinion with him, especially the well documented ones about the club's place in the Non League system. He was a stickler for standards and, as the vicar said at Alan's funeral, the best tribute that this club can pay to his memory is to ensure that the high standards he instilled will be continued and built upon. This the current club officials strive to uphold.
The inscription within the metalwork reads
"Alan Wright 1933 - 2002 - A lifetime's dedication".
R.I.P.