About Friends Fighting Cancer
Bringing people together to raise money for Cancer related charities
Friends Fighting Cancer Description
OUR STORY SO FAR
Football for cancer was born in 2009 with the idea that we would get some friends together to play in a charity football match for a cancer charity. Using the social media site Facebook, we set about asking our friends if they would be interested in taking part, this snowballed, the response was so big we had to make the decision to turn it into a tournament making up four teams of 15 players. All teams would be named after family relatives that had sadly passed away from cancer and all teams were sponsored by local companies. We hosted our first event with the help of Jamie Steves at Moneyfields FC. 60 players paid a sign up fee as well as raising through sponsorship and then we needed to find a Charity, Marie Curie Cancer Care were contacted and it was agreed that any money raised would be for them. We were extremely proud to hand them a cheque for over £14, 000
In 2010 we did it all again for 'The Rowans Hospice' but this time the word had spread and more people wanted to sign up! So we had to make the event even bigger from 4 teams to 8 teams taking part! Local football teams Horndean, Fareham Town, Gosport Borough and Havant & Waterlooville allowed us to use their grounds for the lads to play the games. With the event growing so did the amount raised and we were pleased to hand The Rowans Hospice a cheque for £32, 000
2011 we contacted a small but very worthy charity 'The Rosemary Foundation' offering a hospice at home service to those dying of cancer. Copying the event blue print from the year before we set about organising the event but with the financial climate effecting everyone it did take its toll on the final amount. . not that it wasn't an amazing amount of £22, 000
2012 FFC grew just that little bit bigger with other events now being planned. The chosen Charity for the football tournament was The Tom Prince Trust, Some of the lads even took a week off work to plan and do a moped ride from John O'Groats to Lands end (On 25 year old Honda Visions) it took a week to complete, the seven lads with a support crew of two made the voyage without any casualties but with a lot of break downs along the way! ! ! this managed to raise over £5, 000 and along with a ladies walk at our final this year with over 30 women walking a 5 mile walk finishing at our final the event went without any problems raising £25, 782. 03p (gift aid to be added)
We also put on a five a side competition at Roko and a Rosemary Ramble walk in Queen Elizabeth country park again for 'The Rosemary Foundation' managing to raise over £6, 500 combined.
In all 2012 has been our most successful year to date raising more than £32, 000 not including gift aid! we also confirmed Katie Green (Super Model) - Ray Crawford (Footballing Legend) & Andy Johnson (QPR Premier league player) as our patrons!
FFC has now built a LEGENDS team from players, who due to their hard work, support and commitment to our cause have stood out to play friendly games against, Pompey coaches, Companies and Celebrity teams raising £500 per game as all players pay £10 subs towards cancer charities. .
Some of our organisers and players have also visited West Ham's ground to take part in their yearly charity 5 a side event helping other charities raise monies for their causes and we've been lucky enough to have had the pleasure to have the use of Fratton park in 2010 & 2011. Each time putting places to play in a team up for auction for anyone to place a bid which has raised money towards our final amounts each year.
In total FFC - Football For Cancer has raised over £100, 000 for local Cancer related charities and continues to grow each year! we are a NON PROFITABLE Organisation.
OUR PLANS FOR 2013
. This year we are raising monies for Macmillan Cancer Support.
. Walk For Cancer is aiming to have over 100 women walking 10 miles, collecting sponsorship to add to the final amount and will finish their walk at our final on 5th May
Our website site is currently being built and will be ready to launch in March 2013 (Old one is still up . and running)
. We have people training for the great south run raising for FFC this year
. 20 lads cycling to Wembley and back raising for FFC 2013
. 12 FFC lads are training for an epic row to France this summer
. We are planning and organising an FFC boxing night
. FFC will be hosting a five a side tournament
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Tomorrow we travel down to Birmingham to play WAB FC!!
We can not wait to meet them all and enjoy a good game together!
Huge thank you to our sponsors throughout this event we wouldn’t of been able to make this happen without you all ❤️⚽️
Fantastic turn out in Liverpool tonight!! Thank you all who turned out to play tonight!!
MSB Woolton 7 FFC 5
Ben Standen 1... MOM Ray Ogilvie
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4-4!!!!
Here at The Simpsons Foundation Ground in Liverpool
MSB Woolton va FFC
FFC currently leading 0-1 Ben Standen from 10 yards
Here at The Simpsons Foundation Ground in Liverpool
MSB Woolton va FFC
FFC currently leading 0-1 Ben Standen from 10 yards
We are Two 90 minute games away from being........ half way there 😩
Up next: LIVERPOOL ⚽️🙌🏻
To our new friends in Sunderland Leeds and Stockport here’s the documentary we made about our flagship charity event which explains everything you’ll need to know about how it works and more importantly what it means to everyone involved
There’s music, there’s singing there’s emotion and there’s plenty of poor football lol but there is bundles of togetherness
THIS IS FFC ⚽️🔥
... https://youtu.be/y8Flac6mUFc
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FFC SOUTHAMPTON if you have registered to take part in next years football tournament event and would like to play in our 10.10.10 game at Blackfield & Langley give us a shout the game kicks off at 6.30pm on Friday 9th November
If you haven’t registered and would like to them please contact us via email
Southampton@ffcevents.com
Tomorrow our lads will arrive in Liverpool for DAY 4 of the 10 day challenge!!
If your local to the area pop down and get behind the lads! Huge thank you to the teams helping us in this event, our sponsors and supporters across the UK
If you can’t make it but would like to donate please follow this link
... https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/te n-ten-ten…
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Game 3 COMPLETE
Stockport Supporters Select 5 FFC 5 ⚽️🔥🎉
... Another great group of lads and we are very very grateful for their support today pulled in more players to ensure today’s game went ahead LEGENDS!!
MOM Lee Jones
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GAME THREE!!
Let’s do this!!!🙌🏻
Today our lads play our 3rd game in 3 days
Get behind them if you can! Pop down and support or give them a small donation here
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/te n-ten-ten…
Day Two COMPLETED!! Another great game between 20 great lads! They even raised £200 to go into our pot 🎉👏🏻🔥⚽️
Leeds Utd supporters team 7 FFC 4 Widger 3 Ogilvie 1... MOM Lee Jones
I’m literally buzzing after that 🔥⚽️
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Day Two
Driven down from Sunderland I to Leeds Checked into the hotel (free WiFi 🔥) Found launderette ... Kit currently being washed 💁🏻♂️
Huge thank you to Kevin Prince for being our main event sponsor
Spike Spicer for being the match ball sponsor
eChem for being the match sponsors
And Yopa for being the kit sponsor
Just one question left to answer.. who will concede more goals tonight?? Ben Standen or Steve Baker🤷🏻♂️⚽️
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Look at Charlie 5 months modelling one of our baby hoodies On sale £6 (0-3m, 3-6m & 6-12m) at the FFC shop 48b High Street, Cosham
Just a few from last night!
Fantastic evening now on to our next at Leeds
Donate link:... https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/te n-ten-ten…
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Today’s game will see the lads head down to Leeds to play their supporters trust Select XI
Games records W: D:0 L:1 F:1 A:7 (and counting)
... https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/te n-ten-ten…
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Didn’t get the win but FFC and Sunderland Select XI have made a friendship
Sunderland 7 FFC 1
... MOM Steve Baker
If anyone would like to donate towards this event here’s the link
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/te n-ten-ten…
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FIGHT FOR CANCER (Round four)
Massive thank you to Josh at Razor Blade Media for coming along and doing this video for our charity!!
Big thank you to Flamingo Contracting for sponsoring this event and Jackson Ground Works for sponsoring our programme
... *We would like to thank all of our fighters for their dedication, professionalsm and determination during this years Fight For Cancer event. These boxers have trained so hard for this, supported each other and gone through highs and lows throughout the past 12 weeks!! they also sold out our arena and on top of that fund raised over £25,000!!!!!!!
*We would also like to thank a few people involved in this event from start to finish!!
*Our boxing coaches Danny Salter and Chris Hayden, and their trainers Adam Holman, Heidi Ogden, Ben Brown, Danny Knight,
*Our photographers Jasmine Ryan, Steve Reith and John Brown
*FFC Video Photgraphers Steve Baker & Donna Bateson Rachel Jones, Dan Manuel, Dan Pidgley
*Rhino's support crew, Stewie Kerr, Jim Mardle, Karl Durham, Paul Widger, Grant Dove, Jack Grant, Lee Jones, Darren Joseph, Brendon Bone, Gavin Stockley, Nathan Davies, Racheal Bridgman, Glenn Bridgman, Stanley and Alfie Bridgman, Glynn Fox, Gary Fox
*Host & Compare Matt Marsh
*Ring Girls Sam Hart & Rachael Mills
*Glove Wrapping Darron Wiseman & James Lee burchall
*Lighting Paul Kemp & Dave Ward
And our biggest thank you is to Paul Ryan & Mike Hart!! this was all down to them!!! Thank you for four wonderful years!!!
Final amount raised is over £50,500 🔥🥊🔥
Would you like to sign up to next year? if so pop into the FFC shop in Cosham and hand in your details, Name Number, Email, Address, D.O.B
48b Hight Street, Cosham, PO63AG
www.ffcevents.com
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absolutely fantastic group doing things for other less fortunate than themselves ... good luck on fundraising folks
They're helping me, someone with terminal breast cancer, ty for everything that all of you do xxxxxxx
So lucky to have a amazing ffc family ☺️
I am proud to say I am part of a great cause and a great big family we all stand as one and would encourage anyone that loves football to get evolved.
Great local charity. Well done to everyone involved
Great family day out for a fantastic charity. Well done to everyone involved �
Great charity, absolute honour to have been involved since the start. Met some great people and most of all raised massive amounts of money for some great causes
Great cause, one that personally feel so much and should in the future be great boon for fundraising for treatments, research etc.
Colin lewis (Codge) I've just become properly aware of this fantastic charity and I'm looking forward to doing everything I can to help in any way I can. They are a community of ordinary people doing extraordinary things good luck to them all !!
Brilliant charity who do make a difference to people's lives who are going through a tough time. So grateful to them - the words "thank you" just aren't enough.
Boys together old and young, playing football, drinking beer, eating pasties and singing dressing room songs, meeting old playing partners, Arty on DJ all day and, get this, raising shed loads for Cancer related charities whilst doing it! A great FFC Finals day in Dorset last Sunday, a great day all round.
Been apart of my life for 9 years and every year just gets better and better ��
An amazing charity to be part of, it’s not just a charity but a community of people coming together and helping each other out. I couldn’t be more proud to be part of it
An amazing charity that does amazing things for local people. Honoured to have been involved with FFC 2017. My first year... many more to follow.
An amazing charity right at the heart of the community, raising money and awareness in the fight against cancer. Supporting those that have been affected by this terrible disease.
An amazing charity i am so proud to be part of the ffc family and you meet some amazingly nice people too.
Amazing charity. No matter what football ability you are you can play and are accepted with open arms!! Love it
Amazing charity, helped my ex husband through chemo, if he hadn't got this grant it would've been a much more difficult treatment, thank you so much, he is now in recovery and my kids still have their dad! Xx
A wonderful charity, who truly make a difference to people's lives.