Scarborough Athletic is getting ready to paint the ground pink in the name of a good cause, although not literally of course!

October is national Breast Cancer Awareness month, and the club have come up with a fund-raising scheme which everyone can be involved in.

The main fund-raising effort will see the first team don an alternative kit to their usual red and white home strip for the visit of Brighouse on October 23.

For one weekend only it will look as if the red and white elements of the kit have run together in the wash - as the team take to the Queensgate pitch in an all-pink strip!

This is where businesses and supporters come in - as each shirt number 2-11 is available for individual sponsorship by local businesses or groups of fans.

For a minimum of ?50 - although a higher donation can be put forward - businesses can sponsor the front of the strip and have their logo printed upon it.

Or a group of fans can club together to purchase a shirt and have whichever logo or name they would like upon it.

The businesses or groups involved will receive a special pink certificate of sponsorship, and will receive publicity in a special pink match-day programme.

The goalkeeper kit and subs shirts will feature the logo of current home kit sponsor Shoreline Suncruisers.

Following the game the shirts will be dry-cleaned, signed by the squad and by made available for auction - proceeds of which will go to Breast Cancer Care.

Details of the auction will be released after the day.

The special pink programme for the day will be increased in price to ?2, with 50p from every copy sold going to the charity, and the club has invited numerous organisations involved in raising awareness and funds for Breast Cancer Care to the day itself.

And finally, the club is encouraging all Boro fans to wear something pink on the day in support of the fund-raising efforts and the campaign itself.

For more information about the day, to offer sponsorship for one of the kits, contact Boro director James Hunter on 07787 563748.

For details of how your organisation can attend the event, contact Community Director Wendy Danby on 07796 622433.

For more information about Breast Cancer Care or the Awareness Month of October, visit this link.