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Building society supports charity through hockey sponsorship

Newcastle Building Society has signed a two-year shirt sponsor contract with the Vipers ice hockey team - and has made a four figure donation to help fund the Vipers’ programme of local community work as part of the deal.

The Society logo will now be worn by the Vipers’ players during all matches in the 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons, as well as on show around the Newcastle Arena during home games.

And the donation to the Vipers Community Foundation will be used to support the club’s health promotion and coaching work in schools throughout the North East.

Set up in 2006, the Vipers Community Foundation has worked with over 25,000 children across the region, using Vipers players to deliver messages on healthy living and ball hockey training sessions both during and after school.

The Vipers Community Foundation also encourages improvements in academic and non-academic activities by rewarding children with tickets to games at the Metro Radio Arena to see the Vipers play in the national bmibaby.com Elite League.

Nicola Green, Corporate Communications Manager at Newcastle Building Society, said: “We’re very pleased to be able to support one of Newcastle ’s most popular professional sports teams in such a visible manner and wish the team every success for the coming season.

“It was very important for us to be able to give something back to the local community through this relationship, and we hope the donation we’ve made to the Vipers’ Community Foundation will be a boost for the extremely good work that the club and players do in schools right across the North East.”

Jaimie Longmuir, General Manager at the Vipers, said: “Newcastle Building Society is a name recognised throughout the region and sits well with the Vipers in helping to promote the success and diversity of talent the North East has to offer.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .