A South Warwickshire children's charity has been chosen to benefit from this year's Stratford Town Football Club Christmas Campaign, helping bring comfort, joy, and special memories to children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.

Molly Ollys, founded in memory of Molly Ollerenshaw, works tirelessly to support children facing serious health challenges by providing emotional support, therapeutic toys, and granting wishes that help make difficult days a little brighter.

This Christmas, Stratford Town FC is joining forces with Molly Ollys to raise awareness and funds through a series of initiatives, including a donation drive day where the team from Molly Ollys will join Stratford Town FC at the Arden Garages Stadium for the match against St. Ives Town FC on Saturday 13 December.

Part of the day will see the first team take the field for their pre-match warm up wearing special Molly Ollys shirts.

The club will also be encouraging members and supporters to get involved by purchasing Molly Ollys products from their Clubhouse and website shop, or simply spreading the word about the charity's vital work.

"Community is at the heart of everything we do at Stratford Town FC." said Chairman Jed McCrory.

"We're honoured to support Molly Ollys this Christmas, the charity is so meaningful and emotive. Their team make a significant difference to children and families across the UK, and we are looking forward to building strong ties with them with this Christmas Campaign and future initiatives."

Rachel Ollerenshaw and Olly The Brave are pictured with Steven Burge, STFC Commercial Manager (image supplied)

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As well as providing more than 4,300 wishes to date, Molly Ollys donates therapeutic toys and books to both children directly and to hospitals throughout the UK.

Olly The Brave is a therapeutic toy that helps children understand their treatment journey.

Along with a set of books from the charity's exclusive Olly The Brave series, stock the lion and books now been handed out to more than 70 hospitals or health centres to distribute to children undergoing treatment.

Olly has his own Hickman line and a detachable mane which helps to explain and normalise the effects of chemotherapy.

Part of more than £5m raised to date, has also been used to fund the first consultant in paediatric palliative medicine at Birmingham Children's Hospital and pay for the training of a further two consultants.

Co-founder Rachel Ollerenshaw said: "When Jed and his team approached us to be their charity Christmas partner, explained how they're embedded within the community, in particular working with hundreds of children, we didn't think twice about getting involved.

"Working with Stratford Town Football Club throughout December and raising vital funds in the lead up to Christmas, will not only help us start to build a long-term relationship with the football club, but will also assist Molly Ollys as we continue to support children across the UK with life-threatening illnesses.

"We're really looking forward to matchday on 13t December and can't wait to see the team warm up in their Molly Ollys training tops. Meeting the supporters, sponsors and volunteers of the club is important to us as we aim to increase awareness to people who may not know of the work we do.

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Fundraising has been particularly tough over the past couple of months and we really need help to maintain our levels of service"

Fans can support the campaign by donating at Stratford Town FC and at home matches throughout December and visiting the Molly Ollys website .

Also, there are Christmas cards and gifts that can be purchased from the Molly Ollys website shop and Stratford Town Clubhouse.

Josh Hawker, Dan Lafferty, Rachel Ollerenshaw, Dan Vann and Club captain Paul McCone (image supplied)