Joint venture launched in Stenhousemuir

SNP Councillor, Lynda Kenna cut the ribbon that launched the latest SNP initiative in sports development.

Falkirk Council and Stenhousemuir Football Club are the parties involved that will see the football club's Ochilview Stadium become the focus of the local community.

The new £350,000 state of the art pitch will be available to the community to hire and adds another attraction to local sports fans. Falkirk Council provided £250,000 of the cost of installation in what is the first such partnership in the UK. Stenhousemuir will open their doors to the community and provide youth coaching for the local youth groups.

Speaking at the opening Cllr Kenna said,

"Since the SNP came to office in Falkirk Council we have shown that we can and will thing outwith the box. Partnerships such as that with Stenhousemuir are the way forward and in Falkirk we have two first class partnerships that are providing excellent facilities to the wider community which is so important these days.

Full marks also have to go to Stenhousemuir Football Club who are demonstrating, once again, that they are a genuine community based and community orientated football club and that they have the interests of the people of Larbert and Stenhousemuir at heart, They deserve nothing but credit for this because its all to easy to claim to be a community club but in the case of the Warriors this is wholly justified.

Add this to the Stenhousemuir Town Centre regeneration and we can see that it is the SNP that is taking this community forward. "