Amidst a hard year of budget cuts, the Leeds Gryphons face a new set of challenges. The club is now operating on less than half of our typical union funding. On top of this, the club has now been informed that we no longer have access to university pitches for games, so must spend our limited budget on external pitch hire. To exasperate the team's financial problems, we are now faced with a kit shortage. With over 50 paid members the team does not have enough suitable kit for this years freshers cohort to play and experience American Football. This is why we are reaching out to everyone: our alumni, our friends and our Gryphons AF family to help the club dig ourselves out of this dire situation.