Mount Toubkal Trek for Newcastle United Foundation
Dawn Barber is raising money for Newcastle United Foundation
Team: Mount Toubkal Trek
Story
In June, myself and a dedicated team of foundation colleagues, generous advocates, sponsors and supporters will take on a huge challenge!
In a strenuous 3 day long trek, our amazing team of hikers will climb Mount Toubkal under the hot Moroccan sun. This climb up North Africa's highest mountain will raise vital funds for Newcastle United Foundation's disability programmes. As most of you know, I've been at the foundation for 8 years now and am so lucky that my job allows me to see everyday the impact our staff make every day to the lives of participants.
At Newcastle United Foundation we support every disability impairment and provide free in school and after school sessions as well as adult evening sessions all over the North East. Our disability football teams play in national and international tournaments and represent the importance of football to help people realise their aspirations and take opportunities to play the game we love.
Please take two minutes to watch Oli's story:
As the need for access to our disability sessions becomes greater, so do the costs to cover this. To put into context, the costs to run these sessions is around £90,000 per year so we are going above and beyond to help raise the money to do this and continue to provide sessions across our region. The more money our group doing this trek can raise, the more families we can support via this vital service.
Every penny donated is greatly appreciated and 96p in every pound will go directly to support our disability football sessions.
Harry is one of the thousands of young people accessing and enjoying our support every week:
A huge thank you if you've read down this far and so grateful for any support you're able to give.
More about our brilliant charity: Newcastle United Foundation uses the power of football to connect, motivate and inspire people in our region. Through community, education, health and wellbeing, and sports programmes delivered across Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, Gateshead and County Durham, we strive to improve physical and mental health, boost learning and career prospects and provide life-changing opportunities for everyone – no matter their goals in life.