Tim Richardson, a busy football dad from Burton Joyce who runs a new under 10’s football team for Calverton Miners has announced plans to cycle a 1000km to support the club.
The football mad dad said “I’m going to ride 1000km in 30 Days over the month of November and my target was £1000, I’ve currently smashed this and reached over £3,000. This is all whilst trying to Juggle full time work, 3 Children, Football Training and Matches of my own.
“We’re currently trying to gather funds for our 4G State of the art pitch which is due to be started next season, we can’t do this without the funds though, as it costs thousands of pounds.
“Grassroots football gets over looked but this is where it all starts for our children with some of them going on to be professional footballers, this can’t happen if clubs and teams fold.”
Tim’s Team of budding football stars play at Calverton Minors welfare club on a Saturday and this is their first season as a team playing together.
Some of the children never played within a team before and Tim proudly told Gedling Eye “We’re currently smashing the league with winning our first 3 games.”
Tim told us that the next seven weeks will be tough as he has to train his body and mindset to get to where he needs to be and freely admits that he is not the fittest of people and this is a big challenge for him.
The Burton Joyce man has a busy life outside of his full time job with community football activities five days per week in both Gedling villages including every weekend during the football season.
Tuesday is Calverton Training day (Led by Tim and an Assistant Coach), Wednesday – Tim takes his other son to Calverton Training (led my someone else), Friday is Burton Joyce Football Training (where he is an assistant coach), Saturday brings Calverton Matches and on Sunday its Burton Joyce Matches.
Tim said “As you can see, I have a busy lifestyle when it comes to helping the children get better at football, get fitter and just enjoy the game, and I put my all into it, so to be doing this bike ride (Approx 35km per night) too, is going to be a challenge in itself.”
Tim will be be doing the challenge on a road bike around Nottinghamshire.
Tim has set up a Just Giving page for his supporters and he has already raised over £2000 on that platform alone Crowdfunding to Help Pay Towards a 4G Pitch on JustGiving
