After
a couple of previous successful attempts at fund-raising for specific
charities (2010-2011 aptcoo and 2014-2015 maggies), the “ontheroad”
crew (myself and Kev!) have decided once again to donate a sum
of money for each goal we see on our travels in this coming
season, to a local, deserving charity. With Kev being recently
diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, my initial idea was to raise
funds for Parkinsons’s UK, but Kev thought that a children’s
charity would be a great idea, and maybe look at Parkinson’s UK in
the near future.
Last season, I watched watched 285 games with a
tally of over 1300 goals seen. Hopefully, with midweek afternoon
games and Sunday games, I reckon that this coming season I should be able to get
to over 250 games again, with hopefully around 1,000 goals seen. I
have retired so can take in many more games than Kev, who obviously
with health worries and family and work commitments
cannot possibly get to all the games, but has agreed to donate
anyway. The format will be me and Kev chucking in £0.30 per
goal between us and – well, you do the sums. Any goal-less games
will see us add £1.00 to the pot – we only had five last season
and long may that trend continue.
This is not a begging exercise, and
we're not trying to buy a place in heaven! We will never ask for
contributions – we are just a couple of ordinary blokes wanting to
do our bit, and with so many people asking if we are still supporting
charities, we thought it may be time to give it another go.
We
have decided on the charity we are hoping to give to - we just need
to cross a few t’s and dot a few i’s before it can be 100%
confirmed. The charity has a couple of well known sporting patrons
and should (I hope) benefit from any publicity, however limited, that
“ontheroad” can provide.
Rob Hornby is already doing such a
superb job raising funds via his blog, so we don’t expect our
football loving friends to dip their hands in their pockets again,
but I can assure you that any contributions will not be turned away.
