Sport Huntingdon, a partnership between Huntingdon Town Football Club and Huntingdon Rowdies, has been given the money to improve its home, Jubilee Park.

The Football Foundation grant worth £695,183 is for a new changing pavilion and has also been awarded a separate Football Foundation grant worth £300,000 because of its status as a Charter Standard Community Club.

The Football Foundation is the UK's largest sports charity funded by the Premier League, The FA, Sport England and the Government.
Sports Huntingdon chairman Ray Deans said: "This is brilliant news. This is what we have been striving for many years.
"With this money it means that both clubs will be going forward from strength to strength and benefiting more and more children in the area now and in the future for many years to come. I hope the local people will support us and raise these funds."

The Kings Ripton Road ground currently caters for 16 teams for more than 300 people.
There are about 190 playing members at Huntingdon Rowdies Youth FC and junior football is provided for eleven age groups of boys and one for girls.
At the senior level Huntingdon town FC have three squads for men and one for women for about 110 adults.
The new pavilion will comprise six changing rooms, three officials' changing rooms, first aid room, club room with kitchen and bar area, committee room, spectator toilets and storage areas.

Huntingdon Town chairman Hans Reif added: "This is a fantastic award for our two clubs and the site.
"We hope that the local community will help us all raise the remainder of £100,000 towards the total project cost of £1.1 million to achieve the aim of providing better facilities for all our players and all the community."

Huntingdon Rowdies life president Allan Dalrymple said: "This is a wonderful venture for our club.

"Having formed the club in 1980 no-one thought that we would eventually be involve in a project of this scale. Having the standard of changing rooms and hospitality area being built at Jubilee Park will enable the club to offer more to the Huntingdon community than just football as we do at this time."

Concerns about access have been expressed by the Warren Hay Road Safety Action Group which has been campaigning for a safer route for pedestrians to the park.