Newcastle have cancelled their end-of-season awards dinner as head coach John Carver and his players battle to secure Premier League safety.
The event, which would have raised funds for the club's charity Foundation, was due to take place at St James' Park on Wednesday evening, four days before the final-day fixture against West Ham.
However, the threat of demotion has led officials to cancel it to ensure the focus remains solely on collecting the points required.
A club spokesman said: "Newcastle United Football Club has made the very difficult decision that in view of the current league position, it would not be appropriate for the team and coaching staff to be celebrating the season and collecting awards at a time when our only focus is on the next two games and securing Premier League status."
It is not yet known if the dinner will be rescheduled, but the club has vowed to work with Foundation to find another way to provide support.
Meanwhile, Carver has put all talk of his future on hold as he attempts to secure Newcastle's Premier League status.
The 50-year-old, who was appointed as head coach until the end of the season following Alan Pardew's departure for Crystal Palace, had presided over an eight-game losing run before last Saturday's 1-1 draw with West Brom.
Such a sequence of results can hardly have helped his cause, with owner Mike Ashley and managing director Lee Charnley still considering their options.
Despite the difficulties he has encountered -- and injuries and suspensions have been significant mitigating factors -- Carver still believes he is in with a chance of landing the job on a permanent basis.
However, as he prepared his team for a potentially decisive trip to relegated QPR on Saturday, Pardew's former assistant insisted his situation can wait to be resolved.
Carver said: "If we win on Saturday and all the results go our way, I still want to go and win the West Ham game. Then we'll talk about it.
"I want to win at everything I do. This goes back to what I said last week about me believing, in my head, I am the best. I want to win everything. I'm so competitive.
"My pride has been hurt by the run of results. I want to do something about it. If that means winning the next two games, that will make me feel a little bit better."
Newcastle decided not to make a permanent appointment in January after discovering their main targets were not available, and an approach to Steve McClaren following the end of Derby's promotion hopes proved equally fruitless.
But they will look to move swiftly once they know where their future lies with a big summer rebuilding programme on the cards, although Carver, who held lengthy talks with Charnley in the wake of a humiliating 3-0 defeat at Leicester, is adamant the job has not even been discussed.
He does not expect it to be until after the final-day fixture against the Hammers, saying: "There has been nothing discussed. We have just focused on these two games.
"I am going away on holiday on the Wednesday after the West Ham game, so I would like to know where I am by then.
"But I want no discussions from now until the West Ham game is finished. I don't think it's right. I think it's important we have to keep all our focus on these games."