Documents & FAQs

As a Community Amateur Sports Club, Wideopen FC is a non-profit organisation. Monthly subs are charged and split across all 12 months of the year. Subs continue through the summer because that period is often the most expensive time for the club — league enrolment fees, FA affiliation, pitch hire deposits, and insurance are all paid upfront before the season begins.

For complete openness, here is what your subs contribute towards:

• Clubhouse rent and maintenance from North Tyneside Council — we do not own the building but are responsible for all upkeep
• Car park and surrounding area maintenance
• Utilities — floodlights, electricity, heating, water, shutter servicing, fire alarm servicing and gas servicing
• Club systems, website, pitch booking and email
• 4G pitch upkeep — to maintain FA standard the surface must be serviced, brushed and decompressed regularly
• Pitch hire from North Tyneside Council (currently approx. £140 per team per season) — Lockey Park is council-owned and pitches are rented each season including marking and grass cutting
• Goals and nets — we recently replaced all goals at a cost of approximately £10,000
• FA affiliation fees
• League enrolment — roughly £400 for a central venue team, £200 for home and away
• Insurance for the club and all players
• Coaches’ qualifications and DBS checks
• Training kit — balls, cones, mini goals and equipment
• First aid kits
• Referee fees for league games
• 30 weeks of winter training at external providers — approximately £1,400 per team, which for a mini soccer team represents almost the entirety of that team’s subs income
• Trophies for presentation day
• League fines
• Additional kit where team sponsors cannot be found

If you can help through sponsorship, grants or donations, please get in touch at info@wideopenfc.co.uk