Man Utd names first partners

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 30 July 2007

The Cystic Fibrosis Trust and the Children's Society have become the first national charities to benefit from Manchester United's new charitable foundation.

The football club will support the charities’ fundraising activities by providing signed merchandise and free facilities such as use of its pitch during the summer. No direct grants will be paid to the charities in the three-year deals. Trish Hirst, chief executive of the MU Foundation, said no fundraising targets...

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