The Coventry City Former Players Association would like to remind City supporters that we are still seeking to raise £5000 needed to breed and train a guide dog who will be named after the late, great, Coventry City icon (and Association member) Jimmy Hill. We have more than passed the half way barrier, having collected money on our coaches to the Sky Blues Wembley Checkatrade trophy win and donations at last month’s Legends Day and its raffle. CCFPA has also made a donation directly from Association funds and will add in monies collected at our upcoming Golf Day 2017 in June.
The project began with a visit by CCFPA’s chairman Jim Brown and former players Dietmar Bruck and Ron Farmer to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Breeding Centre at Bishops Tachbrook. ‘Harty’, one of the dogs they met there was again at the Ricoh for Legends Day along with a couple of friends and sniffed out a number of donation opportunities meeting fans as they did a circuit of the Arena with CCFPA’s Sarah-Jane Morris and a couple of staff from the centre during the Sky Blues win against ‘the Posh’!
Sarah on dog duty!
The Puppies Meet The Sky Blues Scarves
If you would like to help us reach our target to raise the funds for puppy Jimmy to be born and trained you can do so by clicking https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/JimmyHillPuppyFund or Text CCFP67 £Amount to 70070. We are currently a third of the way to raising £2500 there!!
A piece in Coventry about our campaign to fund a ‘Jimmy Hill Puppy’ in Coventry Observer can also be found here: –https://coventryobserver.co.uk/news/guide-dog-to-be-named-jimmy-hill