Hi everyone, welcome to Alexis’s just giving page. 

In September 2019, Dundee United Community Trust launched their Girls Academy which Alexis has been part of since their formation of an Under 11’s team and she signed in December of that year. With a view to increasing girls participation in football within Dundee, Georgia Carter (Girls’ & Women’s Development Officer), has worked so hard to give the girls a fantastic environment to train and play in, plus provide the girls with fantastic opportunities. Despite the pandemic and the lockdowns that have accompanied that, the girls have been provided with the opportunity to stay engaged in various ways; zoom training, challenges, non contact training for under 11’s recently. Last weekend there was a football quiz and a home scavenger hunt. 

This got Alexis thinking about how she could give something back in the form of fundraising. As many of you will know, fundraising is such an integral part of youth football. It will provide girls across the academy with additional support in various ways and is important now more than ever. So her and I sat down and discussed several options that were feasible at this time and came up with the challenge of walking 500,000 steps throughout the month of March. This equates to around 16,000 steps a day. Inspired by the fact it’s important, especially at this moment in time, to be outdoors and moving as much as possible for good physical and mental well-being, Alexis will be completing her challenge over the 31 days in March. 

All activity will be formally recorded through Strava/Fitbit and pictures taken while on her adventures which you can keep up to date with here. 

All Alexis is asking is that you can donate a few pounds to help her with her fundraising efforts if you can. As most of you who know Alexis will know, football is her life and the Girls Academy has given her a great space to develop her football, while making new friends and building her confidence and she just wants to give a little something back