Bradford City AFC is set to host its first-ever Community Takeover Day.
The takeover, scheduled for Saturday, November 23 during City's fixture versus Accrington Stanley, will celebrate the work of the club's charitable arm, the Bradford City FC Community Foundation.
A parade around the University of Bradford Stadium pitch at half-time will feature hundreds of people from across Bradford, including school pupils, competition winners, rising stars from junior clubs, and social outreach group attendees.
Foundation CEO and former City striker, Ian Ormondroyd, will deliver a speech from the middle of the pitch during the parade.
The capacity opening of the TL Dallas Community Stand, which can accommodate almost 1,500 spectators, will take place too.
The stand is a joint venture between the Foundation, club, and long-time club sponsor TL Dallas and Co Ltd.
It is an alcohol-free community stand that welcomes "non-typical, usually first-time" fans from areas of high social deprivation to the University of Bradford Stadium.
Mr Ormondroyd said: "We are grateful to the club for giving us the opportunity to celebrate our work, front and centre, in the unique atmosphere of a City home game.
"Since establishing ourselves as the official charity of the club, and seeing our organisation expand from a handful of staff to a large operation which delivers sporting and non-sporting programmes and projects across the city, we are proud to have become a key cog in the Bradford system.
"The Takeover Day is our chance to celebrate all we have already achieved, and to establish further connections and awareness among the City fanbase and members of the local community, as we continue to grow in size and influence."
The Foundation also oversees the running of Bradford City AFC’s Women and Girls and Disability football teams.
In addition, it runs its own in-house education provision, enabling students to combine their studies with football.
In the past year, the Foundation has worked with more than 23,000 participants across 44 individual projects - including the establishment of a dedicated food bank alongside partners Penny Appeal, BCAFC and BCAFC Women and Girls, and Bradford Lifts; and the opening of a dementia and Parkinson’s-friendly Friendship Café, which runs weekly.
The Foundation will run numerous other events to mark the day, including a warm-up shirt design competition, and a social media competition for all attendees at the game using the hashtag #CommunityTakeover.
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