{"id":9643,"date":"2026-01-13T12:28:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/nhs-funds-football-pitch-to-help-boost-island-health\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:28:59","slug":"nhs-funds-football-pitch-to-help-boost-island-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/nhs-funds-football-pitch-to-help-boost-island-health\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS funds football pitch to help boost island health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A football club in the Isle of Lewis has started turning an overgrown area into a new training pitch with funding from NHS Western Isles.<\/p>\n<p>Carloway Football Club said the green space, next to its main pitch, would be used for team exercises and community activities.<\/p>\n<p>The health board said \u00a322,000 in capital grant funding would help to provide a \u00ab\u00a0safe and accessible\u00a0\u00bb place for people of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>The club said the upgraded facility would benefit junior and senior teams, including a new over 40s side.<\/p>\n<p>NHS Western Isles chief executive Gordon Jamieson said encouraging physical activity was key to \u00ab\u00a0improving health and wellbeing\u00a0\u00bb in the Western Isles.<\/p>\n<p>The grant money is separate from the health board&rsquo;s core funding for staff and patient care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A football club in the Isle of Lewis has started turning an overgrown area into a new training pitch with funding from NHS Western Isles. Carloway Football Club said the green space, next to its main pitch, would be used for team exercises and community activities. The health board said \u00a322,000 in capital grant funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}