Regular readers may recall that I plan (still do!) to add a separate bar down the right with charity links in. Time and an inability to correctly decode the HTML that lays out this page have prevented me from doing so up till now, but please do keep mailing any links in. At the very least, they’ll get popped on here. I don’t get a massive number of hits, but for the sake of an email it doesn’t hurt to try.
Two to let you know about:
158 Grounds In One (decimal) Week
Two Stafford Rangers supporters who visited every ground in the Premiership, Championship, Conference and the Conference feeder leagues in 10 days. That’s 158 grounds and a shade under 3500 miles. The task was completed a week or so ago and pictures are now online.
Donations are split between Stafford Rangers, MIND (a mental health charity) and MacMillan Cancer Relief. They take PayPal and for a tenner you can sponsor one of the grounds they couldn’t get anyone to cough up for. There are about 40 of them. Notably, the only Premiership clubs not to get a sponsor were Sunderland and Middlesbrough. So NUFC.com sponsored them as well, hence the massages displayed on their pages… You don’t have to pay a whole tenner, though. Even a quid will help.
Barny’s a guy I know through the 2000AD web pages and the old newsgroups before that. As the title suggests, he’s off to the land of fire next year to walk 80,000m in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society. His aim – one pound per metre.
You can donate in various ways, but if you’re a UK tax payer then payment can be made subject to Gift Aid regulations and Barny gets an extra 28p on the pound.
If either of these appeals, give them some dosh. Doing something yourself? Let me know.
