Coventry City Football Club supports a number of national and local charities and community organisations. Here you will the find the details on which charities have been nominated for support in the 2011/12 season...   National Charities During 11/12, Coventry City Football Club is supporting the nominated Football League charity, Help the Hospices. As the Football League aims to raise £400,000 nationally for hospice care, the Sky Blues will be supporting Myton Hospice and Mary Ann Evans Hospice throughout the current season. Fundraising activity is set to include bucket collections and fan initiatives, as well as a dedicated week of action from March 7 to March 13, 2012 where all 72 League clubs will stage a game in support of Help the Hospices. Associated National Charities Kick It Out/Show Racism the Red Card Princes Trust The Royal British Legion Local Charities    Kids Intensive Care and Decision Support (KIDS) KIDS is a children's acute retrieval and advice service which specialises in the management of critically ill children requiring intensive care across the West Midlands. If a child becomes critically unwell requiring breathing support, blood pressure support, or other specialist help, the child's doctor or local hospital may ask for the child to be transferred to a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). If children have specific medical needs (for example liver problems), they may also be transferred to a PICU that specialises in the care they need. KIDS are a skilled Paediatric Intensive Care team, made up of a doctor, a nurse and an ambulance crew who assist in the treatment of critically ill children, both before and during transfer to intensive care. British Blind Sport British Blind Sport (BBS) is a national registered charity based in Leamington Spa. British Blind Sport is the leading voice for visually impaired people (VI) in the world of sport and leisure, both at home and internationally. The work of the charity enables visually impaired people to have the same opportunities as sighted people to access and enjoy sport and recreational activities in the UK. The Sky Blues will be working with British Blind Sport in the Coventry area aiming to provide resources to parents, teachers and sports coaches which will help visually impaired children to participate in mainstream sports in and out of school and also to help provide specialist access to matches, including the provision of 'Hearing Commentary' for visually impaired fans. Sky Blues in the Community Sky Blues in the Community (SBITC) is the community arm of Coventry City FC and a registered charity. SBITC delivers projects to people of all ages across four themes: o Sports participation o Social inclusion o Health o Education. SBITC comes into contact with an estimated 10,000+ people per year through a variety of projects and programmes. This includes children, both in and out of school, as well as participants with disabilities and adults aged 18 to 80.