CREATING CHANCES Places for Players is to return for the new Premier League season and the national application process has been extended until Friday 8 August.

Fancy a Bolton player dropping in to raise the profile of your school, charity or not-for-profit community group along with a £4,000 cash donation from the Barclays Premier League?

Click here to fill in a simple application form. Organisations which are local to the Club are asked to think about how they could best use a Bolton player to raise awareness of the good work that their group does in their community and how they would use the £4,000 donation.

Closing date for entries is Friday 1 August 2008. Once the entries are collated, BWFC will choose one winning organisation who will receive a player visit and a £4,000 donation. Five additional runners-up will also receive a £4,000 donation from the Premier League.

Running from September to November 2008 the initiative will again highlight the continued and increasing commitment that Bolton and the other 19 Barclays Premier League Clubs provide to their local communities.

Creating Chances Places for Players is the Premier League's flagship good cause programme.

It had its debut season last year when ten players at every club took part in a range of events that highlighted the Club's community work.

Bolton fans might remember seeing many of our players taking part in the initiative last season.

Some of the activities that Bolton took part in included:

- Nicky Hunt and Jussi Jaaskelainen helping the Junior Whites in celebrating the Reebok Stadium's 10th anniversary. They were team captains in a 'Question of Sport' style quiz and challenged on Bolton facts, players, news and matches from the last decade.

- Heider Helguson taking part in Street Soccer Bolton initiative at St Luke's Drop in Centre, a weekly football training activity for homeless men to develop a healthy lifestyle with structure and stability.

- Bolton Wanderer's Study Centre holding a language event for local school children. Nicolas Anelka, Gerald Cid, Ivan Campo, Mikel Alonso and Kevin Wolze held a Q&A with children in French, Spanish and German.

- Kevin Nolan holding a coaching session and giving youngsters advice on football at the Pikes Lane Recreational Zone Unity in Diversity project. Unity in Diversity encourages the different ethnic and faith communities of Bolton to come together.

- Gretar Steinsson and Gary Cahill took time out of their training schedule to serve refreshments to out patients at Bolton Hospice.

- Kevin Davies spent the day at Euxton with a team of 16-24years olds from The Prince's Trust showing them a day in the life of a professional footballer.

During last season's programme, Premier League players undertook all manner of different roles in their local communities: baking cakes, singing songs, creating works of art, working in charity shops, sweeping streets, packing bags in supermarkets and even washing hair, there was little that the players didn't put their hand to.

To see how every Barclays Premier League Club took part in the initiative last season click here

Creating Chances Places for Players is part of Creating Chances, which is now the 'umbrella brand' for the Premier League's expanding £122 million community programme which aims to use the power of football to engage children and young people in social intervention programmes aligned to five key areas:

- Social Inclusion

- Health and Wellbeing  

- Equalities

- Education

- International Development.