A WASTE management has donated £3,500 to Brighton and Hove Albion’s official charity.

Biffa is the Premier League club’s official waste management contractor.

The money will now help fund the charity’s football sessions for people with a disability.

AITC is the area’s largest provider of football opportunities for people with a disability and now runs 31 regular sessions, which are attended by upwards of 300 people every fortnight.

Its programme includes a growing number of disability-specific sessions alongside the charity’s long-running inclusive sessions which now take place in Brighton, Worthing, Eastbourne, Chichester, Burgess Hill and Horsham.

In the last 12 months alone the charity has also launched a new session for people with autism, a junior amputee session and one for people with Down’s syndrome.

These sessions, however, are expensive to deliver, each costing AITC between £2,500 and £5,000 a year to run – meaning donations like the one received from Biffa are vital.

Mark O’Neill, manager of Biffa’s depot in Burgess Hill, presented AITC with a cheque during a visit to the Amex with driver Ted Page – and the company’s imaginatively named truck Wendy the WasteEater.

He said that having heard about the work AITC does in the local area, the company was keen to help.

Mr O’Neill said: “Supporting AITC is extremely important to us on a number of levels.

“We see it as our opportunity to support a local charity with links to the community that staff and family of Biffa are associated with. We applaud the great work that they do.”