YC Team award nomination: Colwyn Bay FC

Oct 2 2008

COLWYN Bay Football Club has been nominated for a Your Champions award for their support of a Conwy Valley children’s charity as well as their work in the community.

Following in the footsteps of Barcelona FC, the Seagulls opted this season to feature the logo of Ty Gobaith Children’s Hospice in Ty’n-y-Groes instead of featuring a revenue-generating sponsor.

Barcelona FC pioneered the idea of featuring the Unicef charity logo on their shirts last season.

Ty Gobaith offers respite care for many seriously unwell children and their families and relies totally on fundraising and does not benefit from any Government funding.

The club has already organised various charity events such as football matches and has also handed out free match tickets to school children as well as running soccer schools at Colwyn Leisure Centre.

Darren Cartwright is the managing director at Colwyn Bay FC and said he was delighted to be nominated for the award on behalf of the club.

"It is great for the club to be nominated, it is great people have recognised us for our support of the charity along with the other community work we do," he said.

"We went without sponsorship to put the logo of Ty Gobaith on our shirts - it is a locally based charity which works with children and provides respite to their families, it is a very worthwhile cause. Obviously the charity needs as much support as they can get to run the facility.

"Working more with the community is certainly something we’ve been working more on in the last 12 months, we recognised we needed to be a lot more active in the community. We’ve run soccer schools at the leisure centre and we’ve handed out 8,000 tickets to kids in the community."