Charities Policy 08/09 season
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
Snowball
Myton Hopsice (Coventry Appeal)
Tiny Tim's Children's Centre
Associated
West Midlands/Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Services Youth Development
Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trusts
Playing for Success
Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance
The Grace Research Fund (Special Care Baby Unit)
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.
SNOWBALL APPEAL
The Coventry Telegraph/Mercia Snowball Appeal raises money for equipment for children with disabilities in Coventry and Warwickshire. This appeal first started in 1985 and raises money to help children in Coventry and Warwickshire with disabilities and serious or terminal illnesses.
The appeal became a registered charity in 1990 and has five trustees, including editor of the Coventry Telegraph, Alan Kirby, who meet every six-eight weeks to consider applications.
Snowball money has ensured local youngsters can afford the life-improving equipment they so desperately need. As well as helping individuals the Snowball Appeal has taken on large projects and the charity gave £100,000 to Coventry and Warwickshire hospital in 1989 to fund its pediatric out-patients clinic called the Snowball Suite.
None of the charity's special work would be possible without donations, however small, or the hard work of people from all walks of life who organise events to raise much-needed cash. You can make a donation at the Coventry Telegraph, Mercia, any branch of Coventry Building Society, or send cheques and postal orders payable to the Snowball Appeal to: Margaret Nelmes, Snowball Appeal, Coventry Telegraph, Corporation Street, Coventry CV1 1FP.
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/
Tiny Tim's Children's Centre
Tiny Tim's Children's Centre is a Coventry based Registered Charity, founded in 1997 to help children with disabilities and special needs.
The main aim of The Tiny Tim's Children's Centre is to provide free therapies, including Physiotherapy for all the children who benefit from such treatment. The charity mainly provides help for children who live in Coventry, the surrounding West Midlands and Warwickshire area but the centre also sees children from further afield.
The children with disabilities and special needs who come to the centre for therapy are aged between 0 and 18 years of age. The centre helps children with a wide range of conditions including, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Autism, Epilepsy, Dyspraxia, Asthma, soft tissue abnormality, Downs syndrome, chromosomal disorders, behavioural problems and sensory impairment.
Those who benefit from the charity are children with any kind of disability or special need. In helping children the centre also helps their parents who enjoy the wider psychosocial benefits for the family. The centre provides approximately 3,000 free therapy sessions every year.
To make a donation or for further information email: tiny-tim-centre@supanet.com or call 02476 228 254.
