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Men's, Women's, U21 and U18 players make festive visits

2022-12-16T10:39:59.769Z

CLARETS SPREAD FESTIVE JOY

Men's, Women's, U21 and U18 players make festive visits

2022-12-16T10:39:59.769Z

Men's, Women's, U21 and U18 players make festive visits

Burnley FC have been bringing Christmas cheer across the community this week, with a number of visits made from first team, academy and women's players.

The Clarets stars made trips to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Pendleside Hospice, Burnley in the Community Foodbank and the Extra Time & Dementia Community party.

Goalkeeper Arijanet Muric and Darko Churlinov made a visit to Royal Blackburn Hospital on Tuesday, delivering Christmas gifts and spending time with the nurses and staff from the children's ward.

In recent years, the squad have been able to visit the patients on the ward, but due to Covid-19 and the risk of any potential viruses at this time of year, the players were unable to visit the youngsters.

At the hospital, Churlinov said: "It's nice to be able to come down to the hospital today and drop off some presents for the children.

"Hopefully it can make a smile and make their time here a little bit better and get them through it."

Meanwhile, Jay Rodriguez and Josh Brownhill went to the Pendleside hospice, where the pair spent time with the patients and played festive games.

Over at Turf Moor, our U18s squad attended the annual extra time community Christmas party on Wednesday afternoon.

The youngsters spent time with the party guests, singing Christmas carols, playing games and having a dance to festive songs.

Youth team captain Joe Westley said: "It's really important we do things like this, they are really supportive of the Club and what we do.

"I have really enjoyed it, they're really interesting people and have great stories, everyone has had fun today, playing games and singing songs."

First team duo Josh Cullen and Taylor Harwood-Bellis then visited Burnley General Hospital on Thursday afternoon, delivering presents to the children's ward and spending time with the nurses and staff from East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust.

And the week was rounded off with Ian Maatsen, Dara Costelloe, Joe Bauress, Millie Ravening and Evie Priestley dropping off food donations at the Burnley in the Community Foodbank.

The group were shown around the community kitchen, met the community staff and discussed the importance of the foodbank to the news outlets that visited.

Maatsen explained: "It's good to come down here and donate food parcels & packages, and see the foodbank.

"The connection between the club and town is really strong and it shows with initiatives such as this.

"It's a tough time of year for some people and this place will be able to help out and give people food that need it, it's a special place."