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To DCMS:

I'm the Chairman of Leamington FC in the Vanarama National League North. All clubs started the season on the understanding that grants would be in place if crowds did not return. Players contracts are for the season or 12 months. As soon as we started the season, we were duty bound by law as clubs to pay those contracts in their entirety. Whatever the understanding of the National League/FA/DCMS was on such future funding post New Year, the reality is that clubs futures are endangered through being caught in the middle of a dispute between those three bodies. If we had been advised that future funding was in the shape of loans none of the clubs would have commenced the season. We are at the heart of the community like all clubs we have 30+ boys/girls/ladies teams, post 16 education/football academy, 80 boys in a football academy plus do coaching/fitness/health/wellbeing in schools (including special education needs) plus other fitness and coaching programmes in the wider community. 
Furloughing staff is likely to cost the government as much if not more than providing grants to allow clubs to finish the season. We are hugely grateful for the government support already provided but would never have placed our clubs futures in jeopardy if we had been advised of funding being in the form of loans, we would have just mothballed our clubs for the season. So whilst I understand the governments position of being equitable to all sporting organisations we as clubs find ourselves trapped by a situation not of our own making. DCMS please see sense and make grants the provision. It is not going to cost you any more than your current stance. 
We want our clubs to be around for the long term continuing to provide huge community benefits.

Jim Scott, Chairman