Useful information including parties, coaching and other packages offered by the AFC Bournemouth Community Sports Trust

Birthday Parties	Matchday Birthdays	Matchday Packages
Schools Programme	Out Of School Coaching	Summer Soccer Schools

The AFC Bournemouth Football In The Community Department has expanded to become the AFC Bournemouth Community Sports Trust.

The organisation will reach out into the local community like never before offering new opportunities for local children to benefit from the activities undertaken by the club.

The Sports Trust has been granted charitable status allowing the department to access a greater depth of revenue streams and to become a greater asset for the town of Bournemouth.

All of the current activities run by the scheme will continue to operate as normal and details of coaching, birthday parties, soccer schools and a whole lot more can be found on the table above.

In its current form, the department are reaching over 45 schools and 1,700 children a week. Extra staffing levels and a wider range of activities will enable this to expand further.

Head of the new Trust Steve Cuss said, "Over the five years I've been here we've always totally focused on football. This new development will allow us to expand into other sports and get into more schools in the process.

"We will be working closer with existing groups and forging new partnerships while the activities we do continue to broaden. Our aim is to provide a greater contribution to the local community."

The AFC Bournemouth Sports Trust will officially launch on the home Boxing Day game against Leyton Orient. There will be plenty going on throughout the day in what is now a Silver category game for match tickets.

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AFC Bournemouth's new Young Fans Co-ordinator Charlie Baker is aiming to get more young fans than ever before involved with The Cherries.

A series of initiatives planned throughout the season are geared towards further increasing Cherries involvement with the community and giving something back to the club's younger fans.

Charlie said, "We are aiming to forge close working relationships with the local schools and provide a partnership that will benefit the community. The South Stand '50-50' scheme will see the area of the ground allocated to a school for matches throughout the season with the school and the club sharing the revenue.

"We want to get the AFC Bournemouth message out into the town and make children proud to support their local team. The players are fantastic role models for younger fans to look up to. The squad are keen to get involved and to provide a positive influence within the community."

As well as branching into the local area, Charlie is working with the Junior Cherries coordinator Debbie Harris to extend the focus to the club's existing fans.

She added, "The Junior Cherries is an excellent club and the more we can do to give something back to the fans the better for the club and its members. We want to improve what they can get from joining and improve their experience of coming to the football club."

The Junior Cherries will be using the Cherry Tree as their pre-match club room before matches in the 2007/2008 season. Click here for more details.

Charlie's role is being funded by a partnership with Ryvita.