Please log in or register. Registered visitors get fewer ads.
Football Stadium Charity Road Trip 2
Written by wadey on Monday, 24th Jun 2013 16:42

One year on from our Football Stadium Charity Road Trip, we have decided to do a Part Two.

Last year, we (me, my girlfriend and dad) visited all 92 English league football stadiums, plus Wembley, Highbury and the Millennium Stadium. We covered 2,536 miles and completed this within four and a half days.

The reason we are doing this is to raise money for The Lullaby Trust, formerly known as FSID. They are a cot death charity and they are trying to raise awareness to minimise the risk of such tragedies happening, and also researching to try and find a way to stop it in general.

We chose this charity as on 1st April 2012, our son Tyler passed away. He was only 15 months old, and a healthy little boy. We have been given no explanation as to how he died and we were told the cause was "unascertained".

So, we chose to do these events in memory of him and to do our bit to help the cause. Last year we raised over £5,000 from our road trip and charity night held in east London.

On to this year's challenge! We will be visiting all 41 Scottish league stadiums (I know there are 42 teams but Stenhousemuir and East Stirling groundshare), Gretna's stadium, the two newcomers to the English Football League (Mansfield and Newport), plus 13 other non-league clubs that used to play in the English Football League: Hereford, Kidderminster, Wrexham, Chester, Macclesfield, Stockport, Halifax, Grimsby, Lincoln, Boston, Rushden & Diamonds, Cambridge and Luton.

Once again we will be sleeping in the car overnight, parked up in motorway service stations and funding the trip ourselves, petrol, parking etc.

This trip will be just over 2,000 miles and will hope to complete within four days, starting on 25th July. By this time my girlfriend will be five months pregnant so it's going to be an experience! We will also be posting a photo on the Internet as we reach each stadium.

We have set up a Just Giving site here and a Facebook group called Stadium Charity Road Trip 2. We hope that some of you could donate to this worthy cause, and those of you that can't, if you could post on Twitter and Facebook about what we are doing and share our website please. Thank you for your support last year we really appreciated it :)

Chris




Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.

ITFC_Blood added 20:20 - Jun 29
Phil, just giving link doesn't take ou to the site.
0

PhilTWTD added 13:43 - Jun 30
Apologies, sorted.
0
You need to login in order to post your comments

Blogs 295 bloggers

About Us Contact Us Terms & Conditions Privacy Cookies Advertising
© TWTD 1995-2024