Ashgate Hospicecare named official Spireites Charity Partner
Chesterfield have announced that Ashgate Hospicecare will be the club’s official charity partner during the 2015/16 season.
Alison Ward-Foster, fundraising manager for Ashgate Hospicecare, is delighted with the partnership. She said: “We are so excited to be official charity partners of the much loved Spireites.
“Ashgate Hospicecare has been supported by the football club for many years and hosting our Sparkle Night Walk is just one fantastic way they have offered their support to the hospice.
“I have no doubt that working together as official partners will really make a difference to our patients and their families. Each year Ashgate Hospicecare nurses provide care to over 2,000 patients – that’s enough people to fill the Kop!”
Commenting on the new partnership, Chesterfield’s head of commercial & marketing Kevin Fitzgerald said: “Getting a local charity in partnership with the club is something that I have wanted to do since I joined the club.
“We have worked a lot more closely with Ashgate Hospicecare since the start of the season, and both Eleven Sports and Individual Homecare Services donated their respective matchday sponsorships for the recent home game against Wigan Athletic.
“I have come to understand what AshgateHospicecare means to the people of Chesterfield, so it made perfect sense to make them the club’s first official charity partner.”
Photo: Chesterfield players (from left to right) Aaron Chapman, Dion Donohue & Liam O’Neil are pictured with Sharon Needham and Rachel Abberley from AshgateHospiceCare. Courtesy of Tina Jenner.
