Win one of 60 top footballers for your charity
Howard Lake | 5 June 2007 | News
Charities and community groups can apply to win one of 60 Barclays Premier League footballers to make a personal appearance on behalf of their organisation.
The ‘Places for Players’ scheme is part of the Premier League’s new good causes programme, ‘Creating Chances’.
The 60 Barclays Premier League stars will make personal appearances for successful applicants during September 2007.
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The players’ time has been donated by all 20 Premier League clubs to help charities and good causes drive awareness of their projects and create fundraising opportunities.
In addition to the player appearance, successful applicants will receive a donation of £2,000 from the Premier League. There will be 400 runners-up who will also receive a £2,000 donation from the Premier League.
Richard Scudamore, chief executive of the Premier League, said: “Creating Chances highlights the Premier League and our clubs’ continued and increasing commitment to local communities.”
The application form is available for download or can be completed online.
The closing date for applications is 22 June 2007.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.