Club Charity

Since the 2008/09 season, Cambridge University Press has adopted an annual charity, raising funds and awareness of the charity.

Cambridge University Press, the company, adopts three annual charities, with company employee's nominating the charities. CUP and it's employee's then raise funds for the selected charities.

CUP Football Club also adopts one of the CUP selected charities each season, raising funds through match programme sales and match day collections, as well as through events such as race nights and our annual Christmas draw. We also display the charity logo on our first team shirts, raising awareness of the charity in local football and through local media. We have raised in excess of £1,000 for our selected charities in previous seasons.

We are delighted to announce that our 2010/2011 charity is Red Balloon Learner Centres. The aim of Red Balloon is to recover children of secondary age who have been so severely bullied that they have stopped going to school. They set up centres in which they can provide a safe environment with clear boundaries for behaviour and an individual full-time academic, pastoral and therapeutic programme, each Centre taking up to 15 children at any one time. Once the young people have regained their confidence and are able to cope academically and socially, they are supported in their return to further education or in obtaining employment. Red Balloon was founded in Cambridge by Dr Carrie Herbert and now boasts 11 centres across the UK and Ireland. You can found out more about Red Balloon at their website www.redballoonlearner.co.uk

Our 2009/2010 Charity was the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. We raised money in a variety of ways for the charity and gained some extensive exposure for the charity locally with the charity displayed on our first team shirts which were featured regularly in photographs in the Cambridge Evening News.

The club also attended the annual CUP charity presentation and presented the Cystic Fibrosis Trust with a replica shirt. Pictured to the right are club secretary, Gary Crick and committee member, Kenny Paterson presenting the shirt to the Trust's Sandra Howarth at the Cambridge University Press bookshop.

In 2008/09 we adopted our first charity, the Teenage Cancer Trust. This charity was chosen with our newly formed youth team, full of teenagers, in mind. The TCT are aiming to build a £2million TCT centre at Addenbrooke's Hospital in the city. The club displayed the TCT logo on our first and youth team shirts and presented the TCT with a cheque for £500 at the end of the season. We enjoyed some extensive media coverage with youth team players pictured with a TCT shirt in the Cambridge News.