MANCHESTER City fan Alice Pennington had a day to remember recentlly when she met club ambassador and former player Paul Lake.
The club has teamed up with Sport Relief to raise cash for the Manchester Actionnaires, a multi-activity organisation for blind and partially sighted young people.
Through its Shoot for the Moon initiative, MCFC is able to fund MA’s support services for a year.
Paul Lake and other representatives from City visited Urmston Grammar School, where Alice studies, to talk to the pupils about sport and run a programme of activities on Monday.
Actionnaires is one of Action for Blind People’s services for children and young people and AFBP’s corporate fundraiser Mary O’Hagan said: “Blind and partially sighted children don’t always have the opportunity to play much football at school or in other sports clubs. This is what makes our Actionnaires clubs so important. They provide children with the opportunity to do things they may otherwise be excluded from.
“Alice’s family are supporters of Manchester City, especially her brother who is quite jealous to be miss out on all this. He is currently in Australia and one of the first things he did when he arrived was to join a Manchester City supporters club in Sydney.”
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