Manchester City FC commits £400k to second year of Cityzens Giving campaign
Howard Lake | 11 December 2015 | News
Manchester City FC is once again inviting fans to vote on how £400,000 will be spent on on football-inspired charity projects in six countries. This second year of Cityzens Giving takes the grants made by City Football Group and its partners to £1 million.
The campaign is designed to support “young leaders in cities around the world deliver football inspired projects to young people as a sustainable force for social good”.
Yaya Touré launching the second year of Cityzens Giving
This year fans of all City Football Group’s family of Clubs – including Manchester City FC, New York City FC and Melbourne City FC – have been asked to decide how projects are funded by voting for the cause that inspires them the most. The more votes a project gets, the more funding it will receive.
Cityzens Giving funds projects run by young leaders in Manchester, New York, Melbourne, Kolkata, Cape Coast and São Paulo, along with projects from last year’s campaign in Kuala Lumpur, Cape Town and Barranquilla. These projects have been created to tackle issues like unemployment, social inclusion and HIV / AIDS.
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City CEO Ferran Soriano said:
“Manchester City’s community commitment dates back to the founding of the Club over 130 years ago. Today, all City Football Group Clubs have strong community football programmes in place. We are excited to be putting our fans at the heart of this for the second year running, by letting them decide how we fund inspiring community football programmes locally and worldwide”.
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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.