Leeds-based Cowburn added: “I all the time hope my work will carry some pleasure and elegance in addition to get folks speaking. Prostate Most cancers UK have finished numerous nice issues in soccer, and hopefully that is the beginning of followers on the market wanting ahead to Prostate United every year and getting concerned together with elevating loads of cash.
Prostate United is the brainchild of Stephen Gilpin and Ross Burbeary, two efficiency coaches working within the EFL at Rotherham United.
In six years, the marketing campaign they created has raised over £500,000 to assist cease males dying from prostate most cancers – a illness claiming the lives of 1 man every half of a soccer match. This yr, the duo are aiming even greater – in the direction of the million-pound milestone, double what has been raised to date.
Gilpin, who misplaced his grandfather Norman to the illness in 2012 and now works for Wolverhampton Wanderers, mentioned: “Final season was actually particular with the golf equipment that obtained concerned and never simply the members of workers working at soccer golf equipment, however supporters of these golf equipment up and down the nation.
“We all know supporters are the lifeblood of the sport and in getting as many as them concerned via their golf equipment as doable will drive the marketing campaign and its messaging ahead. What we noticed with the interplay with fan bases and communities was completely improbable and that translated into numbers that participated and the quantity raised. Our hope for this yr is to hit the £1m mark!
Burbeary, now of Huddersfield City, and who joined Anderson and Cowburn on the launch, added: “We would like extra golf equipment to be concerned this yr. We’re actually attempting to carry soccer – from grassroots degree as much as the Premier League – collectively, all with one goal of elevating as a lot cash as we are able to for Prostate Most cancers UK.”
You may join Prostate United right here.
Seren Evans, Head of Occasions and Neighborhood Fundraising at Prostate Most cancers UK mentioned: “This yr guarantees to be the largest but within the historical past of Prostate United and we are able to’t wait to work with Stephen and Ross once more, together with the entire soccer golf equipment and supporters that enroll. We’re additionally actually excited to supply our high fundraisers a novel new shirt and grateful to Ed for designing it.
“From the Premier League and EFL all the way down to grassroots degree, soccer has been so influential in elevating the profile of prostate most cancers. Throughout the soccer trade, from the terraces to the touchlines, in board rooms and residing rooms throughout the UK, in addition to throughout pavements and parks, Prostate Most cancers UK are uniting towards the deadliest opponent of all.
“Whether or not signing-up as a part of a workforce or going solo, each exercise accomplished, and each pound raised helps fund lifesaving analysis into higher assessments and coverings to save lots of males’s lives.”
To affix your membership and assist save males’s lives this October, join Prostate United 2024 at prostateunited.prostatecanceruk.org.