The Stay at Home - Be at the Game project provides fans across the world with a unique opportunity to have their cardboard cutout picture in their club's ground via the Be at the Game Ltd website.

For non-league clubs such as Whitby Town, the project is a feel good fundraiser and it also provides financial donations to support out fight to stay alive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each cardboard fan at the Towbar Express Stadium will raise money for the club.

The process

Visit www.beatthegame.org
Register on the website
Choose Whitby Town on the drop down menu
Take your selfie on the website
Pay for your cardboard cutout
Done! You're at the game and you have supported Whitby Town's future

The fans
This idea has been used by some Bundesliga clubs to give the appearance that games are being played with supporters present, despite playing behind closed doors with Borussia Mönchengladbach presenting the highest support for the project so far.

You will be able to keep their personal cardboard fan once we can reopen the Towbar Express Stadium
The cardboard fans will be displayed for as long as we can allow before football resumes
You will only need to make a one off payment of £25 of which £9 goes to Whitby Town. Some of your £25 will also be donated to the NHS

The club will also receive these donations if we can reach each target:

100 cardboard cutouts - £150
200 cardboard cutouts - £200
300 cardboard cutouts - £250
400 cardboard cutouts - £300
500 cardboard cutouts - £350

If we can fill our 500 capacity main stand we will also receive more than £7,000 so this project has plenty of financial meaning for the club.

The Board feel that this could be an effective way to help us fund our project to relocate the canteen and refurbish the current location to become usable as a classroom and meeting room.