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Creating Chances
The Catholic Children’s Rescue Society (CCRS) in Didsbury has received a boost to its funds of £2,000 from the Premier League, as part of the League’s flagship community programme ‘Creating Chances’. CCRS is one of only 20 runners-up selected by Manchester United Football Club in the ‘Places for Players’ initiative and will receive £2,000 from the Premier League.
‘Places for Players’ is the core element of the Premier League’s Creating Chances programme. It will involve 200 Premier League players supporting charities and good causes in September with £1,000,000 to be distributed by the Premier League to help raise awareness of the charities’ and good causes’ work as well as creating fundraising opportunities.
In total, over 500 good causes will benefit from the Places for Players initiative either by players getting involved or from a £2,000 cash donation direct from the Premier League.
Kathy Batt says "we are delighted and most grateful to have been selected as one of twenty charities/good causes to receive £2000 from the Premier League. We will use the money to purchase a more sophisticated database which will enable us to search for relatives more speedily and accurately. This will result in a higher success rate in reuniting birth mothers with the child (now adult) they had lost to adoption so many years ago. The contribution should also allow us to purchase a video camera, which we have needed for some time. This will allow us to record sessions with adopters and their children, which will be used for training purpose. It could also be used to record for posterity key meetings between birth relatives and adopted adults!"