The club is delighted to be able to announce that our application to the Football Stadia Improvement Fund was successful and we have been awarded a total of £113,578.

This represents another major milestone towards achieving long-term security as, together with the planning permission obtained earlier in the year and the money received from Fairview Homes in connected with the redevelopment of Claremont Road, we are now in a position to be able to develop Silver Jubilee Park to a level that will enable Hendon Football Club to play all our first-team matches there.

We are hopeful that this will be in time for the start of the 2016/17 season.

Thanks go to Graham Etchell and Tom Stockman for all their hard work and, of course, to Craig Low and all of his colleagues at the Football Stadia Improvement Fund which provides financial support to football clubs towards their ground improvement projects.