A bid to raise £20,000 towards the cost of a state-of-the-art sports pitch in Carnoustie is under way.
Carnoustie Panmure Football Club plans to convert Pitskelly Park into a venue for the academy and seven-a-side teams with 3G artifical turf.
Two years of work to unite Carnoustie Panmure Youth, Juniors, Carnoustie YM and Monifieth Ladies ended in December.
The club plans to spend almost £300,000 on facilities, starting with two new fields for rugby and football near the high school.
The new club is in the process of becoming a registered charity, which would help its plans to make the dream a reality.
A club spokesman said: “The process of the umbrella club becoming a charity continues and the trustees met with Kevin Lee from the Scottish FA in March to go over the plans to upgrade the old, tiring surface at Pitskelly Park.
“We will be having further meetings with Angus Council in the weeks ahead. The majority of the funding is expected to come from sportscotland and the Scottish Football Partnership.
“The current estimate of the amount the club needs to raise itself is around £20,000 and the hard work of raising that has begun.
“Already we’ve been promised donations from the Angus Trophy Centre and the Carnoustie Crime Prevention Panel.”
He added: “This new facility will revolutionise sport in the town and will benefit the whole community with the schools and other local groups able to use the new 3G pitch.
“We are also looking to work with Angus Council to establish a ‘midnight league’ for local youths in the evenings, which will answer the ‘there’s nothing for the youth to do in the town’ statement we hear.
“What we need now is for the teams and local organisations to come up with fundraising ideas. Once the club has charitable status we will be using that to access further funding streams.”
Earlier this year saw the planning process for the new pitches at Shanwell Road start with a public consultation at the High School.
There has been some opposition to the plan, with some locals claiming there are already enough pitches in the town.
Some 66 players are at the academy age group, including eight girls, 168 players are at youth level, including six girls, and 72 players are in the girls’ teams with adult teams rounding out a total of 65 adults, 220 boys and 86 girls.