Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

On 17 June I’ll be taking part in the 2023 football marathon at Wormwood Scrubs – a 12 hour football tournament played non-stop over the course of a single day. It’s extremely hard work and on average players will run about 40km, which is about the same as running the London Marathon.

Despite the lasting harm done to my body (in particular my knees) in previous years, I'm going to put myself through it all again as it’s for a very worthy cause.

I'm raising money for Tackle, an organisation which uses football to educate young people across Africa about HIV.

You can read about them here: http://tackleafrica.org/ - but, essentially, they provide football coaching courses with drills specially designed to help kids visualise and understand how HIV is spread and the danger it poses. Tackle have already been shown to have a big impact on infection rates for the communities they’ve worked in and have also been working alongside other charities to campaign on other, related sexual health issues including FGM.

Any donation you’re able to make to help me reach my target would be very, very much appreciated!