Arsenal raises £532,816 for Teenage Cancer Trust
Howard Lake | 4 August 2009 | News
Arsenal Football Club has raised £532,816 for the Teenage Cancer Trust, its Charity of the Season for 2008/09, beating its target of £300,000.
The money raised through the ‘Be a Gooner. Be a Giver’ campaign is more than any of the totals over the past six years in which Arsenal’s Charity of the Season initiative has run.
The 12-month partnership included a dedicated matchday – Arsenal v Liverpool – in December 2008. All first team players and directors donated a day’s wages to Teenage Cancer Trust and supporters were encouraged to do the same. £210,000 was raised in just one day.
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Other partnership highlights included ‘Be a Gunner. Be a Runner’, a ten-lap fun-run around Emirates Stadium; a raffle to win a unique Citroën C4 designed by cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, and the Legends & Youth Ball at Emirates Stadium hosted by Little Britain star Matt Lucas and attended by the first team, Arsène Wenger and a other celebrity supporters.
The 2009 Charity of the Season will be Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.
www.teenagecancertrust.org
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.
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