WORCESTER Warriors is holding a "big week" of fund raising to help support community groups and those in need.
Members of Worcester Warriors’ Homeless Rugby team will be virtually walking the 260km length of the England/Wales border this week to raise funds for Warriors Community Foundation.
With the coronavirus lockdown still ongoing, the team is instead walking the equivalent distance on their own.
The walk is part of the Foundation’s Big Fundraiser, a week of activities involving Warriors staff and supporters, to raise vital funds to support the life-changing work of the Foundation.
The Foundation has been badly affected by the pandemic which has reduced its ability to raise funds.
Despite the lockdown, Foundation staff are still supporting the most vulnerable people in the community by calling them regularly, chatting to them via Zoom and keeping in constant contact to ensure everyone is coping.
Foundation staff have also been volunteering to deliver vital food and medicines to participants who are isolated and vulnerable.
That support will become even more important once the lockdown regulations ease and vulnerable people come out of isolation and attempt to return to normality.
To ensure that initiatives including the Homeless Rugby Programme, the Tackling Dementia Sports Cafés and Disability Sports and Inclusion programmes are there to provide the support the Foundation needs to generate funds.
The Foundation’s Big Fundraiser will run until Sunday June 28 and is open to all who would like to take part or simply make a donation to support the Foundation’s life-changing work.
Other fund raising efforts going on this week include Carol Hart, head of the foundation, who is walking 100,000 steps in a week, Isobel Brick, the Foundation’s HITZ and inclusion mentor, who is cycling 100 miles, outreach coach Matt Jones, who is running 60k and Dan Hart, the Foundation’s development co-ordinator, and HITZ Officer Angus Laing who will be walking 100,000 steps in a day.
To support the Big Fundraiser, go to www.justgiving.com/campaign/BIGfundraiser
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