Charity Stand Launched with £1000.00

Oxford City Charity Stand launched with £1000 donation!

Oxford City Football Club held a special fundraising event last Sunday to launch the new Charity Stand at their Court Place Farm Stadium – and raised a splendid £1000 for a local hospice.

The day was organised jointly with local businesses and was a resounding success with a fun 6-a-side competition, penalty competitions and skills training sessions on the pitch and BBQ, stalls, bouncy castle and a high climbing wall around the perimeter. Main organisers David Bage of The Profit Partnership, Simon Lambert of The Best of Oxford Ltd, and well known motivational trainer Basil Mienie, have vowed to make this an annual event and even bigger next year.

City recently announced the unique initiative whereby their main seating stand has been renamed the

Helen & Douglas House stand and from now on, matchday spectators will be allowed free admission to the stand but invited to make a donation to the famous local hospice which provides exceptional care for children and young adults. All monies raised will be passed direct to the charity.

The special link with Helen & Douglas House forms the second of the Oxford City celebration milestones in their 125^th Anniversary Season. In July, the club restaged the 1906 FA Amateur Cup Final against Bishop Auckland – winning again by the same 3-0 scoreline originally recorded 100 years ago. More celebrations are planned as the season progresses culminating in the club successfully receiving the prestigious FA Charter Community Club Award confirming their status as a role model football club.

Welcome to Helen & Douglas House

Helen & Douglas House is a registered charity providing respite and end of life care for children and young adults with life-shortening conditions, as well as support and friendship for the whole family. The two hospice houses are bright, vibrant and positive places, where the emphasis is on living life to the full, even when that life may be short.
There are many families in the UK who are caring for a child or young adult who has a life-shortening condition. Caring for someone with such a condition, often for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, over many years, can put an immeasurable strain upon the family. And whilst families willingly invest love, energy and care, life becomes governed by the relentless timetable of nursing and medical needs.

Relationships can suffer, careers may have to be abandoned, healthy brothers and sisters can feel left out and regular family activities and holidays can be rare. Families often feel alone and afraid in their grief.

How Helen & Douglas House can help
Children can stay at Helen House and young adults can stay at Douglas House, along with their families, for short periods of time for rest and recuperation, treatment of distressing symptoms, end of life care and support.

Helen & Douglas House aims to help the children and young adults who stay at one of the two Houses to live life to the full as far as possible. We envision a time when no child or young adult with a life-shortening condition will journey alone or unsupported.
Helen House was the world's first children's hospice. Douglas House was the world's first 'Respice' for young adults. www.helenanddouglas.org.uk

Charity Fun Day

REMINDER! – CHARITY FUNDAY this Sunday 8th October – 12 noon until 5pm, Entrance FREE

OXFORD CITY FOOTBALL CLUB, Court Place Farm Stadium, Marsh Lane, Marston, Oxford OX3 0NQ

We are expecting in excess of a couple of hundred people with over 100 businesses represented one way or another. Local radio and press will also be there to make this a memorable day (we may even have a few local celebrities on hand)

Entertainment includes:

• 6-a-side football tournament – 6 (possibly more) local business groups “light-heartedly, heavy footedly” vying for the prestigious Helen & Douglas House trophy.
• Bar and BBQ, Ice Cream, coffee and snacks etc.

Variety of stalls and attractions to include:

For the Kids:

• Penalty shoot-out competition
• Skills training
• Bouncy castle

PLUS (for 4-10 yr olds) the chance to do a ‘Relax Kids’ FUN workshop with Marneta of Dragons Den fame; A unique opportunity to transform your children! – Benefits include improved sleep, confidence, creativity and concentration. See website for details http://www.relaxkids.com/Classes/relax_kids_classes.php

For the Adults:

• Thai Foot and Head massages with Michitkan
• Beauty therapy with Stephanie
• Reflexology and Rune reading with Howard
• Shiatsu and Refexo sessions with Francois
• And of course a……..Penalty shoot-out competition

Charity Raffle and Business Draw:
Prizes include:

• For the raffle:
• Signed Relax Kids books/CDs from Marneta
• Adult Season Ticket to Oxford City FC (Kids go free)
• Micro Hi-fi system

A FREE environmental survey of your home from ‘The Feng Shui Practice’
Plus lots more besides

For the Business Draw:
6 months FREE advertising on “Best of Oxford” local web directory
6 months FREE advertising on “Best of Abingdon” local web directory
FREE half day in-house business health check from ‘The Profit Partnership’
Adult Season Ticket to Oxford City FC (Kids go free)
FREE Oxford City Football match programme advertisement
With more to come…….