Grass pitch improvements, new full sized fenced and floodlit AGP, and pavilion refurbishment; design, planning and tender followed by contract admin.
Cantley Park, Wokingham
Funding awarded
From concept to completion
Working with the public, private and voluntary sectors, we specialise in the design, funding and development of sports facilities.
We take clients from concept development and project planning, through accessing financial support from all major funding agencies, to contract management and completion.
Whether you need to use a full range of professional services or just a selection, our experience and comprehensive knowledge of the processes of planning, designing, funding and developing facilities for sport mean that we are uniquely placed to offer you the right advice.
Does your idea for a sports project have potential? Will it be possible to navigate through all the procedures and processes that need to be followed to make a complex development successful?
Steve Wells Associates has unrivalled experience in sports facility development and the expertise to analyse viability and provide strategy advice.
Steve Wells Associates prepares and submits funding applications including all consultation, comprehensive site and football development plans, programmes of use, business and management plans as well as all online applications.
We have a strong history of successfully applying for Football Foundation projects; in the last few years alone we have drawn down over £41 million in funding from applications.
Where instructed, we provide a full design and planning service. We prepare detailed designs and satisfy all the conditions of planning applications.
Our comprehensive design and planning service incorporates all areas of the project, from initial concept development to the delivery of services.
We offer full management of the tender process, including accessing additional funding, developing contract documents and carrying out principal designer (CDM) duties. Our team will also manage the Bill of Quantities.
Developing complex sports facilities needs an investment of time and knowledge that goes beyond the experience of most organisations, be they educational establishments or sports clubs, whose prime focus lies elsewhere.
As part of our service, we deal with all aspects of project management and contract administration, resolving a wide range of issues and agendas that are complex, often conflicting and always time consuming.
We develop business plans and management models to ensure that your facility is well-used, affordable and remains an important contribution to sports provision and development in the surrounding area.
Our collective expertise across multiple disciplines will assist your organisation to increase community use of its sports facilities, maximise income and achieve your sporting goals.
We believe one of our key strengths as a company lies in the knowledge that we have all the relevant resources and expertise that projects need to actually get them off the ground.
Above all, we have the resourcefulness and tenacity to make sure that the opportunities and facilities needed to deliver a quality sporting experience actually do happen.
Funding your project
Steve Wells Associates prepares and submits the funding applications on behalf of your organisation. This can include all consultation, comprehensive site and development plans, programmes of use, business and management plans, and all online applications. Where instructed, we provide full project management through to completion, from the grant claims process to final account.
Football Foundation Funding Expertise
We are particularly experienced in Football Foundation projects, drawing down over £41 million in funding from successful applications in the last few years. Typically, the average grant from the Football Foundation has been around 50% of each scheme’s whole project costs although, in some instances, either partnership funding or the award itself far exceeded that proportion.
Middlewood Rovers JFC, Sheffield
New, two-team changing pavilion with club room, kitchen, toilets, and some grass playing pitch improvements. Football Foundation award.
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Albury Football Club, Guildford
Remodel and extend existing pavilion; tender and contract admin. Football Foundation submission made by club and awarded.
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Palatine Park, Worthing, West Sussex
Full sized 3G AGP development. Football Foundation award.
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Lymm High School, Cheshire
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP development. Football Foundation award.
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Bishop Walsh Catholic School, Sutton Coldfield
New, four-team change pavilion development; design, planning, tender and contract admin. Football Foundation award.
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Kings College Guilford
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP development. Football Foundation award.
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Woodkirk Academy, Leeds
Playing pitch improvements, drainage, and playing pitch maintenance equipment; followed by contract admin. Football Foundation award.
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Cowes Enterprise College, Isle of Wight
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP development. Football Foundation award.
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Emmbrook School, Wokingham
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP development. Football Foundation award.
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Ossett Town JFC, Wakefield
Changing room refurbishment, car parking, and playing pitch improvements. Football Foundation award, S106 monies, WMDC capital, WREN funding.
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South Hiendley Harriers FC, Wakefield
Playing pitch regrading and drainage plus maintenance equipment. WMDC capital, WREN funding, Football Foundation award.
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Birchwood Community Academy Trust, Warrington
3G AGP refurbishment project. Football Foundation award.
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Penistone Church FC, Barnsley
Playing pitch regrading and drainage plus maintenance equipment. Barnsley Council capital and Football Foundation award.
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Sporting Khalsa FC, Willenhall
New full sized fenced and floodlit Stadium 3G AGP. Football Foundation award.
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Blacon High School, Chester
Refurbishment of existing floodlit sand based AGP to 3G. Football Foundation award.
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Vauxhall Motors FC, Ellesmere Port
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP and refurbished 3G. Football Foundation award.
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Blackburn Rovers Community Trust
New full sized fenced and floodlit 80m x 50m 3G AGP. Football Foundation award.
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Kirkby Leisure Centre, Knowsley
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP. Football Foundation award.
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Dell Stadium, Dudley
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP plus ancillary accommodation. Football Foundation award.
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Dudley College, Dudley
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP. Football Foundation award.
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Wolverhampton University, Walsall
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP. Football Foundation award.
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Dean Trust, Ardwick, Manchester
New stand-alone 4 team changing pavilion design development, cost plan and planning app for pavilion. Football Foundation award.
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Ormiston Chadwick Academy, Widnes
Refurbishment of existing floodlit sand based AGP to 3G. Football Foundation award.
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Eastbourne Sports Complex, Darlington
Refurbishment of existing floodlit sand based AGP to 3G FTP. Football Foundation award.
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West Walsall E-ACT Academy, Walsall
Refurbishment of existing floodlit sand based AGP to 3G FTP. Football Foundation award.
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Newman University, Birmingham
Refurbishment of existing floodlit sand based AGP to 3G FTP. Football Foundation award, May 2015.
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Laurence Jackson School, Guisborough
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP. Football Foundation award, February 2015.
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King Edward VI College, Stourbridge
New changing pavilion development. Football Foundation, Sport England Inspired Facilities, ECB funding.
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Hornsea School & Language College, East Riding of Yorkshire
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP. Football Foundation, Sport England Inspired Facilities.
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Brierton Sports Campus, Hartlepool
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP.
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Castle View Academy, Sunderland
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP.
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Temple Park Leisure Centre, South Shields
Refurbished full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP.
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Redheugh Football Club, Gateshead
Refurbished 80 x 50 fenced and floodlit 3G AGP.
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Northwood Stadium, Stoke-on-Trent
New full sized fenced & floodlit 3G AGP plus changing room refurb.
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Dimensions Leisure Centre, Stoke-on-Trent
Refurb of full sized AGP and two small AGPs with 3G surface plus Sport England Improvement Fund.
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Packmoor Recreation Ground, Stoke-on-Trent
Access, car park, changing pavilion and grass pitch improvements.
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Longfield Academy, Darlington
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP, car parking and grass pitches; plus additional DfE funding.
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South Holderness Technology College, East Riding of Yorkshire
New pavilion, car park, full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP and grass pitch developments.
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Ferryhill Town Council, County Durham
New six team change pavilion, car parking and grass playing pitch developments.
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South Cave Social & Recreation Committee, East Riding of Yorkshire
New pavilion, car park and grass playing fields development.
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Hummersknott School & Language College, Darlington
Full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP and grass pitch developments.
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Wickersley School & Sports College, Rotherham
Fenced and floodlit 60m x 40m 3G AGP development.
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Lowdham Parish Council, Nottinghamshire
New pavilion, car park, floodlit MUGA and grass pitch development.
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Rothwell Juniors Football Club, Leeds
New pavilion, car park, floodlit 60mx40m 3G AGP and new grass playing pitch developments.
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Outwood Grange Technology College, Wakefield
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP and pavilion development.
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Manningham Mills Sports Association, Bradford
Grass playing fields development.
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Rossington High School & Sports College, Doncaster
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP development.
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Grayfields Recreation Ground, Hartlepool
New two-storey pavilion, car park, floodlit 60m x 40m 3G AGP and grass pitch developments.
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Howden School, East Riding of Yorkshire
60m x 40m fenced and floodlit 3G AGP development.
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South Hunsley School & Technology College, East Riding of Yorkshire
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP development.
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Beverley Longcroft High School, East Riding of Yorkshire
New full sized fenced and floodlit 3G AGP development.
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Hemsworth Miners’ Community Football Club, Wakefield
New changing pavilion and car park development.
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Tingley Athletic Amateur Football Club, Leeds
New changing pavilion, car park and grass pitch developments.
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Case Studies
Public Sector
Victoria Pleasure Grounds
New sports pitches, changing facilities, and improved accessibility to meet the needs of Goole’s sports clubs and community.
East Yorkshire 2023 £7.4 million Town Deal Fund / S106 / PLSF + £2.28m FF Award 2 years 10 months in progress
Public Sector
Bamber Bridge Leisure Centre
The development of two full sized fenced and floodlit 3G artificial grass pitches along with refurbishment of the adjacent Leisure Centre changing rooms and conversion of a former squash court to new changing.
Lancashire 2020 £2.6 million S106 + £840,127 from Football Foundation 1 years 4 months in progress
Community Clubs
Wortley Football Club
Playing pitch improvements including the creation of new playing pitches on former Redgra and macadam courts, drainage of the existing pitch and contract administration.
West Yorkshire 2020 £405,235 £328,089 from Football Foundation 18 months Completed
Public Sector
Chorley West Way Sports Hub
The development of a full sized fenced and floodlit 3G artificial grass pitch with an adjoining polymeric sprint straight, natural turf grass pitch improvements and a new changing pavilion, with substantial car parking.
Lancashire 2019 £2.3 million S106 + £647,595 from Football Foundation 3 years Completed
Public Sector
Ryeish Green Sports Hub
The development of playing pitch improvements to a 5 hectare former school playing field site, full sized fenced and floodlit 3G artificial grass pitch (AGP).
Berkshire 2013 £3.5 million S106 + £245,000 from Football Foundation 3 years completed
Contact us about your sports project
Steve Wells Associates is a multi-disciplinary team of professionals who have long-standing experience in public, private and voluntary sector provision and governance in the sport, leisure and education sectors; the design and construction of sports and leisure facilities; sports development planning; managing sports facilities and using sports facilities.