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March - April 2008

PASS ON THE PASSION CAMPAIGN DATES

UNTIL the end of the season, a number of promotions and will be running to help spread the word of the local game.

The first campaign of 2008 was aimed at raising awareness amongst school children in the local area.

Working with the local schools, children were offered the chance to watch Portadown, Linfield, Larne, and Donegal Celtic free of charge, as long as they were accompanied by a full paying adult.

The same clubs also supported the second promotion, which enabled schools to raise some valuable revenue by selling tickets for two League games. By selling tickets to pupils, participating schools gained £5 of every £10 ticket sold.

The money raised contributed towards buying new sports equipment or reading materials or will be used to improve school facilities.
The final two campaigns of the season will be supported by Cliftonville, Donegal Celtic, Portadown, Coleraine, Larne and Linfield.

The two campaigns, one entitled 'Ladies Day' and the other involving 'direct mail' will run during March and April 2008. 'Ladies day', obviously aimed at attracting more females to attend matches, will entitle all ladies to half price entry with a discount voucher (printed in the Morton Newspaper Group and the News Letter). The Portadown ‘Ladies Day’ will be on 5th April 2008 for our game against Coleraine. The voucher will be printed in the papers the relevant week of the offer. The direct mail campaign involves over 1000 homes surrounding the club grounds being targeted with a special offer in the post. The ‘home around the stadiums’ campaign for Portadown will feature the game against Glenavon on April 12.

Portadown FC would ask all fans to help promote these campaigns and hopefully entice new supporters to follow their local club. Get your friends, neighbours, work colleagues etc, who don’t normally come to matches, to take advantage of these offers.