Stories From Round Our Way

The grassroots football club in North Yorkshire dealing with the impacts of flooding


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In this story we speak with Andy Charlesworth, the chairman of Tadcaster Albion FC, a team based in North Yorkshire that competes in the Northern Counties Eastern League. Andy has been chairman of the club for most of the last 8 years and he’s been involved with the club for more than 20 years. We met at the ground, right next to the River Wharfe, to discuss the impact of flooding on the club. The pitch was flooded 6 times last year, and has already been flooded multiple times this year. The town of Tadcaster has been so severely impacted by flooding (in particular in 2015, when the bridge in the town centre collapsed) that last year the Environment Agency put planning permissions in to improve the flood defences outside the ground. They are looking to spend 30 million pounds on Tadcaster as a due to regular floods, but until then The Brewers will have to remain resilient.

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