Celtic will play a charity game in memory of Tommy Burns, who lost his battle with cancer five months ago. The memorial match is set to take place next May and will raise cash for charities nominated by Burns' family.

"I've spoken to the family, and they are in the process of putting ideas together with regards to a charity named after Tommy for some form of melanoma support," said Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell.

"We have said to please come to us for some form of donation or go to the charity fund.

"We then spoke about a benefit game and we are hoping that some time in May we would bring together a benefit match for Tommy, his family and their nominated charities.

"With regards to a longer-term memorial, we are looking at certain ideas. But it's too early to give any indication of that at the moment."

A glamour charity match against top opposition at Dublin's Croke Park is another ambition of the club, confirmed Lawwell.

"What we would love to do - and there are clearly obstacles there - is to play in Dublin at Croke Park against top opposition and, we hope, benefit our own charity and other charities," he said.

"That would be fantastic. The idea has been floated for the past couple of seasons, and we have been unable to pull it off but it's an ambition.

"It's something that would attract us."

Meanwhile, chairman John Reid outlined other charitable plans.

He said: "There are three elements to Celtic - the footballing side, the business side and the charitable contributions and work which is done through the efforts of our supporters and everyone associated with us.

"That's the side I want to develop - and to do that, you have to set yourself some form of target.

"So why shouldn't we be the first club in Britain to say we will raise, from our charitable work, 0.7 per cent equivalent of the turnover of the club?

"We will do that separately - it's not the easy way out of saying the club will pay for us - we will raise it as supporters, shareholders and so on through our own efforts."