FC St Helens launched boots appeal to help most disadvantaged

FC St Helens has started The Boot Room Appeal as part of the club's drive to promote inclusion and the desire to help the whole community have access to the club.

Amid all the pressures of the cost of living crisis, the Dentons Green-based club is looking at how to help the most disadvantaged within the community to pursue their love for the sport.

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FC, who play at The Windleshaw Sports Club, on Windleshaw Road, have requested as from today's (Saturday, January 6) game versus Shelley for people to bring down their unwanted boots and they will collate and make available to those that need.

Windleshaw Sports Club (pictured in 2020) (Image: Stock)

FC St Helens sporting director Mark Hayes said: “It is literally is as simple as it sounds.

"The hope is that we manage to get a shed of some sort donated and we literally call it the boot room, just like the olden days to have boots tied on pegs, and simply when someone asks us to see the boot room, with no questions asked we simply let them in."

The club has launched its The Boot Room appeal (Image: Submitted)

"There must be hundreds out there that are just put away under the stairs or in cupboards, and I genuinely have visions of a boot room with circa 50 pairs that simply rotate until they have no life left in them at all."