# Football club adopts charity of the season

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/11/25/football-club-adopts-charity-season/
- Published: 2003-11-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Arsenal Football Club has adopted ChildLine as its first ever charity of the season.
The partnership should boost the charity’s profile among boys.**

As major corporate entities, football clubs are proving a worthwhile focus for charities’
corporate fundraisers. Arsenal FC has now formalised its first year-long partnership
with a charity, the children’s charity ChildLine.

So far Arsenal has donated thousands of pounds worth of advertising space free of
charge at its Highbury Stadium, in the club’s matchday programme and magazine, and
on the jerseys of its players as they warm up before matches. ChildLine has also
been given regular editorial slots in Arsenal’s publications and its Web site to
call for volunteers.

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The football club raised more than £12,000 with its ‘ChildLine Match Day’, a home
game against London rivals Tottenham Hotspur. The income was raised through programme
sales, a penalty shoot out during half time, an SMS text messaging competition and
raffles.

In return Arsenal is using the partnership opportunity to draw on ChildLine’s expertise
to develop its own work with children and young people within its community programmes.

ChildLine’s tenure as Arsenal’s ‘Charity of the Season’ coincided with the launch
of one of ChildLine’s biggest-ever awareness campaigns, Boys Allowed, which aims
to reach boys and young men with the message that it is OK to have problems and 
to seek help to find solutions.

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