Chelsea Football Club has today (Wednesday) released our second Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report that underlines the club's commitment to our stakeholders, community, charities and our social, economic and environmental responsibilities.

The report was unveiled at Chelsea's training ground at Cobham where chief executive Peter Kenyon, manager Luiz Felipe Scolari and Chelsea players participated in community activities with children from a number of the club's CSR programmes.

The children were from the KICKZ schemes in the London boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Westminster, Wandsworth, and Chelsea and Kensington, Chelsea's Under 16 disability youth team, CLIC Sargent, a local team the Milford Puma's under nines and girls from the club's Centre of Excellence.

The report, which covers the 2006/7 season, has cross party political support and has been endorsed by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Andy Burnham, Conservative leader David Cameron MP, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg MP and chairman of the All Parliamentary Football Group Alan Keen MP, which represents 140 MPs.

The Prime Minister said: 'I've always believed in the power of sport to reach out to communities and it is fantastic that Chelsea are taking their CSR role very seriously. The amounts invested by Chelsea, and the involvement of such a large number of people of all ages and backgrounds, show that Chelsea is leading the way in the development of community sport.'

The report reveals that Chelsea invested £4.39 million in our CSR strategy in 2006/7, 2.3 per cent of the company's annual turnover. This included raising more than £1 million for charity, the third consecutive year Chelsea has exceeded this mark.

The United Nations advises major corporates to contribute at least 0.7 per cent of their turnover to CSR.

Kenyon said: 'We believe our second CSR report has moved us forward and again demonstrates the commitment of everyone at Chelsea to use the power of football to bring people together from different walks of life into common causes that will benefit our local and global community.'

Chelsea's players and first team management made 235 visits either as individuals or as a squad group to official club CSR related schemes committing a minimum of 605 hours.

Chelsea and England captain John Terry added: 'I'm proud to be captain of this club and proud of what we have achieved on and off the pitch. All the players at Chelsea play a part in promoting the club's community and charity activities. As footballers we know we can play an important role and have a responsibility to help kids in England and around the world in their health, fitness and education.'

Chelsea has two charity partners, in the UK the children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent and globally Right To Play, in addition to our Football in the Community programme that now caters for 350,000 participants a year.

The club also funds and promotes a number of schemes unique to Chelsea at home and abroad while giving full support to Government, Football Foundation and Premier League funded programmes such as Kick Racism Out of Football, Positive Futures and Kickz.

The full report can be downloaded by clicking here.

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