COVENTRY City Football Club supports a number of organisations and initiatives in order to meet self-set community aims. Our aims include:

Contributing to the local community, focusing on the welfare of those in need.
Encouraging children to live more active and healthy lifestyles.
Supporting children's social development and education.
Promoting unity and rejecting all forms of discrimination.

As part of our commitment to these objectives, Coventry City Football Club actively supports the following charities:-

National:
Nominated
NSPCC

Associated
Kick It Out
Show Racism the Red Card
National Literacy Trust
Football Aid
Football Foundation
Princes Trust
The Royal British Legion

Local:
Nominated
Zoes Place Baby Hospice
Myton Hopsice (Coventry Appeal)
RNIB Rushton School

Associated
Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trusts
Playing for Success

The Club is also actively involved in a number of community schemes that work towards these key aims. Further information on these initiatives can be found here.

MYTON HOSPICE

Myton Hospice provides Specialist Palliative Care of the highest quality for adult patients with advanced progressive life limiting illness, taking into account their medical, physical, cultural, psychological, spiritual and social needs in a non judgmental way with love, respect and humour in a safe homely environment.

All Myton Hospice services are provided free of charge and are available to all patients depending on need.

Clinical staff are all highly trained within the field of specialist palliative care. The clinical team consists of Doctors, Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapist, Chaplain, Discharge Liaison Coordinator, Complementary and Diversational Therapists.

Additionally the hospice is supported by over 400 volunteers in all parts of the organisation from the inpatient unit to driving to working in the shops.

Myton Hopice is currently running a Capital Appeal to build a new hospice in Coventry. The hospice will be built on the site of the Walsgrave Hospital on Clifford Bridge Road. Although the building will be on an NHS site, the cost of building, equipping and the majority of running costs will be met through public donation. The Hospice will comprise a 20 bedded in patient unit with day hospice, counselling and lymphoedema services still under discussion. If plans stay within the allotted timescales the new hospice should be ready to receive patients early in 2009.

Web: http://www.mytonhospice.org/

ZOE'S PLACE

Zoë's Place Trust run the only baby specific hospices in the UK, providing 24 hour one-to-one palliative respite and terminal care to infants aged 0-5 with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. The hospices offer short term regular care in a home-from-home supportive environment; babies can stay from a day to a fortnight period giving parents a much needed break from their full time care responsibilities.

There are already two established Zoë's Places - in Liverpool and Middlesbrough and the trust is currently developing a third hospice here in Coventry. The building stage of the development began in July 2009 and will take 12 months to complete. The hospice build will cost £730,000.

Web: www.zoesplacemidlands.org.uk

RNIB RUSHTON SCHOOL AND CHILDREN'S HOME

RNIB Rushton School and Children's Home offers specialist education, 52 week residential care, therapies and healthcare for young people with sight loss, multiple disabilities and complex health needs. The on-site school also offers education to a small number of pupils who attend on a daily basis.

RNIB are now re-developing the existing Rushton School and Children's Home with a state of the art facility. Due for completion in 2011, the new facility will provide a home to 60 young people. The school will provide education to the young people living on-site, as well as an additional 10 day students.

RNIB is the UK's leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight loss. Pioneering work helps anyone with a sight problem - not just with Braille and Talking Books, but with imaginative and practical solutions to everyday challenges.

For the RNIB Rushton School website, click here.