TWTD readers who sign up to become Academy Friends before midnight tonight can enter a competition to win two seats in the Portman Road Directors’ Box for a Town home game and watch the match as the guests of ex-Blues midfielder and academy sponsorship manager Simon Milton.
In addition to the seats in the Directors’ Box, the winners will also get refreshments in Directors’ Guests’ Lounge before the match and at half-time.
It costs from £5 a month to be an Academy Friend and to help to raise the £500,000 the Academy Association is looking for annually as the club moves to Category One status for the 2014/15 season.
You’ll have your name listed in every matchday programme, on the Academy Association website and you will also receive small Academy Association gifts, for example, a silicone band and car sticker. You will also receive a monthly newsletter via email.
Businesses can also sign up as sponsors from £500. After gruelling deadline-day talks with Simon Milton in Portman Road’s old manager’s office TWTD signed up for the Ramsey Package, which includes the Directors’ Box tickets which are now up for grabs.
Milton said: "I am delighted to have TWTD on board again as academy sponsors, they have supported the academy in various ways over the last five years and have always promoted the work we do here. Someone will be very happy when they win the donated tickets.” To win the competition, become an Academy Friend here and tell us in an email sent to competition@twtd.co.uk which ex-Town, Newcastle, Wigan and Sunderland defender sponsors the academy’s U12 side before midnight and be the lucky entrant drawn at random. Also include your name and the postcode of the address with which you signed up as an Academy Friend. Those who have previously signed up as Academy Friends are also entitled to enter.
Returning striker Alan Lee, who is now coaching in the Blues youth set-up, has also signed up as an Academy Friend.
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