ANDIGESTION, Devon’s food waste recycler, has helped swell the coffers of a project to build a new and long-awaited community use sports pavilion in Holsworthy by donating £5,000 to the appeal.

Work has now started to replace the old building in Holsworthy’s Stanhope Park with a new, purpose built pavilion that the town’s youth football and cricket clubs will be able to call home.

The project, which is being led by the town council, has so far attracted funding from a wide range of donors, including the Premier League and FA Facilities Fund, Sport England, the English Cricket Board and Devon County Council.

Local businesses, including Holsworthy Andigestion, have also contributed, as have members of the community, through a Crowdfunder appeal.

Mayor of Holsworthy, Cllr Jon Hutchings, said: “The pavilion project has been years in the planning, and we’re delighted that work has now started, thanks to the generosity of all our donors who range from local businesses like Andigestion, to individual members of the public.”

Jason Ward, commercial manager at Andigestion, said he was glad the company had been able to help enable and secure the future of a vital community facility.

He said: “As we’re based in Holsworthy, we are naturally keen to help our neighbours where we can. This is a great example of a community effort and we are delighted that we’ve been able to contribute to the appeal. We’ll watch the development of the new pavilion with great interest.”

Andigestion’s Holsworthy plant currently recycles approximately 70,000 tonnes of Devon’s residential and commercial food waste to produce electricity, which is fed back into the national grid. The by-product is a liquid fertiliser that local farmers can use in place of carbon-intensive mineral fertilisers.

The company also offers a ‘wheelie bin’ food waste collection service for Devon, which enables businesses such as restaurants, cafes, hotels, schools and colleges to dispose of their food waste in a clean, green and eco-friendly way.