Our next fixture, at home to Southend United on Saturday 21st December, is a dedicated Charity Partner fixture, with York City highlighting The Snappy Trust this weekend.
Snappy (Special Needs Activity and Play Provision for York) started in York in 1985.
It began simply with four parents who wanted their disabled child to be with friends in the school holidays.
They got together with a local special school and brought the children to school for some days during the summer.
Moving on almost forty years, Snappy now has a register of almost three hundred children, young people, and their families.
They operate during all school holidays, weekends and some evenings, and their age range is 6 to 26.
The children and young people have wide-ranging disabilities and Snappy offers many opportunities in activities, sports, learning and having fun.
It is a safe and happy place and is very well known in York. They recruit many wonderful volunteers to join in with the children and young people.
They receive no government or local authority funding, and all their fundraising efforts go directly to their projects.
Player ambassadors Paddy McLaughlin and Rory Watson both visited the Snappy Trust back in October, where they engaged in activities with the service users, ranging from games to a Q&A session. You can read more on that visit here.
On that evening, we were presented with a fantastic mosaic created using recycled bottled tops, which now sits proudly in our club office.
SNAPPY TURNS FORTY
This coming year Snappy is forty!
Help them celebrate by joining Challenge 40 to make this a very special year.
You could:
- Run forty laps of the field
- Bake forty cakes to sell
- Skip for forty minutes
The list is endless ………..
For more details: www.thesnappytrust.org
