Club Charities for 2025-26

Our club will be supporting the following charities this year.

 Read for Good

Read for Good delivers programmes designed to support parents and professionals working with children and young people to help enable, empower and inspire a life-changing love of reading. Children who read for fun are more likely to do well at school, have jobs they love and lead happier, fulfilled lives. The charity have reached out to over 50,000 children in hospitals which includes Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

 The Archie Matthews Trust

The Archie Matthews Trust is raising awareness of young men’s mental health challenges and neurodiversity, and providing support for young men across Gloucestershire and surrounding areas. The Archie Matthews Trust was set up by the Matthews family last year in response to the loss of Archie to suicide as he did not receive the support he needed from local services and agencies to overcome the challenges he faced.

British Blind Sport

British Blind Sport is a charity that works across the UK. It works to ensure that people with sight loss have the same opportunities as sighted people to access and enjoy sport and physical activity. This includes everything from taking a fitness class at your local gym to competing in the Paralympic Games.

Gloucester Hospitals The Big Space Cancer Appeal

The Big Space Cancer Appeal is our selected charity partner for the 2026 Linda Franks Race. More details may be found on the race page (link).