Lewes have played at the Dripping Pan for 120 years. Like all non-league clubs, balancing the books is a challenge and the chairman of the community-owned club has given an interesting interview on how they try to meet it.
Lewes have played at the Dripping Pan for 120 years. Like all non-league clubs, balancing the books is a challenge and the chairman of the community-owned club has given an interesting interview on how they try to meet it.
The playing budget has been cut back from £3k to £2k a week and like many non-league clubs they rely on recruiting former academy players who haven’t made the grade in league football. What I had underestimated is how high ground maintenance costs can be.
The commercial director has a target of £75k a year. One ingenious idea the club came up, originally suggested as an April Fool joke, was using beach huts for corporate hospitality.