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City in the Community
City in the Community are Manchester City Football Club's charitable branch.

City in the Community have engaged with the local community tackling a range of social issues whilst using the power of football to encourage individuals to lead a better life.

City in the Community was founded in 1986 forging closer links between the Club and it’s local community.

The scheme has two main aims: ‘To create opportunities through football’ and ‘To inspire young people to aspire to achieve’. The scheme delivers a wide range of programmes across 5 main themes: Skills and Enterprise, Health and Activity, Football and multi sports, Disability Sports and Community Cohesion. The scheme comprises 21 full time staff and a further 26 casual staff members; all of whom deliver a wide range of programmes supported by a number of partners from public and private sector organisations, charitable groups, the premier League and MCFC.

Community work is deep seated in the history of MCFC and is essential in the future development of the Club. CITC celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011 and the schemes impact continues to grow every year; in the last 12 months alone CITC work with over 230,000 people from a variety of areas throughout Greater Manchester.