AFC Bournemouth
The club recently welcomed the latest recipients of Cherries Community Fund donations to Vitality Stadium for their large cheque presentation photo taken pitchside.
AFC Bournemouth's popular half-time Cherries Community Draw gives supporters the chance to win cash prizes while helping the local community through the Cherries Community Fund.
The Cherries Community Fund would now welcome applications for donations which will continue across the year, with several worthy causes benefiting from the fund since it started in January 2016, with a total of £221,030.67 given to worthy causes since it started!
The money raised for the fund comes from the draw tickets sold on matchdays at Vitality Stadium, as well as from the matchday auctions in the hospitality suites.
The fund has helped a wide variety of projects in the local area, including helping several local charities support young people with outdoor activities, local schools purchasing specialist equipment, a variety of community projects including a live nativity and helping children and adults with learning difficulties, as well as donations to help sustain various support groups and helping families and dog owners with food hampers across Bournemouth.
The excellent work and charitable donations will continue throughout the 2023/24 campaign as the panel will meet quarterly in 2024 and panels are scheduled in March, June, September, and December to distribute more funds back into the local community.
For more information on how to apply, click here.
The next panel meeting will be in December 2023, so applications received by the end of November would be reviewed at this panel. Applications are still welcomed after this date for the subsequent panel meetings.
