We received an unexpected gift from Randy Lerner, owner of our charity partner Aston Villa FC, at a 25th anniversary celebration event last night. Here’s the response from our chief executive, David Strudley:“We are truly overwhelmed by Randy Lerner’s hugely generous donation of £1m over the next four years – a totally unexpected gift to help celebrate the milestone of 25 years of caring by Acorns.“This money will provide a major boost to our current strategy of generating an additional £4.2m by 2018 to allow us to increase the number of children and families we care for by 50%.“On behalf of all the children, families, staff, volunteers and supporters of Acorns, I would like to say a HUGE thank you.”
Obviously, that is great. Even more obviously, we are all secretly wondering why that won't be spent on a new centre back or creative midfielder in January.
Quote from: paulcomben on December 14, 2013, 12:23:48 PMObviously, that is great. Even more obviously, we are all secretly wondering why that won't be spent on a new centre back or creative midfielder in January.Are you serious?
What Chris said.I'd imagine from the statement that in addition to the donation, there's a long term commitment to Acorns from the club.
Quote from: Rudy Lambert on December 14, 2013, 12:41:09 PMWhat Chris said.I'd imagine from the statement that in addition to the donation, there's a long term commitment to Acorns from the club.Their CEO recently said that since first becoming involved with Villa they can handle 50% more cases than they used to.