Charities - A Helping Hand

The Manchester Phoenix Community Sports Foundation will also be lending a helping hand with three specially chosen children’s charities in the North West. The Foundation will make a special ticket allocation available that can be pre-sold at a discounted rate to members, supporters and affiliated partners who have never seen the Manchester Phoenix play before. Then, 75% of the face value of the ticket can then be donated to the represented charity.

The Manchester Phoenix have kindly donated 6000 family tickets for the duration of the entire season. The organisation is looking forward to introducing 6000 new families to the world's fastest team sport.

As in previous years, the Manchester Phoenix will have a specially designed Pudsey Bear shirt commissioned and will play in it in games around the time of Children In Need. The players will then autograph a special picture of them playing in the shirt, which will then be handed over with the shirt to the Foundation.

The shirts will then be entered into an auction, and the money raised will be donated by the foundation to the Children In Need appeal.

In December, the Foundation will be joining forces with the great and faithful fans of the Phoenix in trying to break last year’s record of collecting 300 new toys for the Children’s Hospital of Manchester. The toys will then be taken to the Hospital and given to the unfortunate sick children who won't be going home this Christmas.

The authorities are still looking into reports that five six foot tall Santas have supposedly been seen helping distributing the presents in the wards in previous years... as if!