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Ramsdens gives shirt space to charity

MIDDLESBROUGH Football Club’s kit sponsor, Ramsdens, has donated its space on the front of the famous red shirt to a charity for two games to help raise awareness of the organisation’s life-changing work.

Ramsdens will be replaced by Marie Curie Cancer Care’s logo for the forthcoming games against Reading and Derby County.

Ramsdens has made the gesture to celebrate Marie Curie Week (7-14 March), when all 72 Football League clubs will dedicate games and fundraising collections to the charity.

Ramsdens chief executive Peter Kenyon said: “We wanted to make our three-year Boro sponsorship work for the wider community as well as for our business and the club.

“We are very keen to extend our links to the local communities and are delighted to be able to help promote Marie Curie in this way and do all we can to raise funds for the charity.”

All money raised will help the charity provide more free nursing care to local people with a terminal illness in their own homes.

Glenis Owen, local Marie Curie nurse, said: “This is the first time the charity has been donated sponsorship on a Football League shirt and Ramsdens have given us a wonderful opportunity to raise awareness of our vital work in the local community and beyond.

“I look after terminally ill people in homes across Teesside every week. It’s important that people are given the choice of where they want to be looked after.

“Support from businesses like Ramsdens and Middlesbrough FC ensures that we can continue this work.”

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