Deer Orchard, preparing for their 62nd consecutive season in Sunday League football, are desperate to acquire new changing room facilities.
But now with new rules coming into the recently established West Cumberland Sunday League aimed at driving up standards, changing facilities must be provided for both teams.
The container is only suitable for one team to change in so the search is desperately on for something similar to go alongside.
Club secretary Gary Horsley has been involved with the club for 39 years and has already priced a good second hand unit which will cost them £1,850 plus VAT but Orchard doesn’t have that kind of money.
He said: “As a team we rely on players’ subs to pay for costs without major sponsorship or other funding.
“Next year the league rules state that clubs must have showers and we don’t have any chance of that on Wakefield Road just like a few other teams in the old Workington League.
“I think the old Egremont League teams are spoiled with much better facilities.”
Deer Orchard are one of the oldest Sunday League teams in the country, and probably are the one with the longest consecutive record of games played.
They are also part of Cockermouth’s history, and very much involved with the community.
Cockermouth Under-8s and Under-10s play at Wakefield Road; Milo Cooke has recently established MC Coaching for kids and he takes his sessions on the ground.
Cockermouth Rotary use the ground on its Touch a Truck day.
