Sam Perkins, from East Leake, Nottinghamshire, has been named as a finalist in this year’s Outstanding Commitment category for the GoCardless JustGiving Awards, after raising more than £250,000 for charity. In 2019, at age 37, Sam was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) which led to him losing the ability to eat, speak, and breathe,…
Nottingham Hospitals Charity has had some major weight thrown behind their ‘Big Appeal’ campaign (initially launched in 2016, re-launched September 2023), in the shape of local Championship rugby club, Nottingham RFU. The players and staff over at Lady Bay helped announce the partnership at the start of this month, the new, corporate partnership having been…
Basford United have confirmed that a percentage of the proceeds made from their pre-season fixture with Notts County next month will be donated to charity following the sad passing of newly appointed chairman Jamie Brough. Luke Williams’ Magpies make the short trip across the city on Tuesday, July 5 (7.45pm), and a portion of gate…
Tomorrow afternoon, Saturday 18 June, the Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire community along with TV talent, Paralympian Richard Whitehead, and former professional footballers will come together to attempt the Guinness World Records title largest gathering of people wearing odd socks and take part in the 5th annual Footprints Cup charity football match. Before kick-off players and the public are invited to…
The remaining two cup finals were played out in the Euro Soccer Nottinghamshire Senior League at the weekend as both the Senior Cup, and Intermediate Cup competitions reached their conclusion at Basford’s Greenwich Avenue. A dominant performance form Dunkirk gave them the NSL Senior Cup, they seeing off Clifton All Whites FCB 5-1, whilst a…
Let’s talk about defibrillators for a while, after all, the heart is the most important part of your body. We won’t go into any statistics, any data, nothing like that, we’ll just talk about one of Nottingham’s many, unsung heroes, this being Amanda Gretton, and her fundraising activities to get defibrillators into her local grassroots…
In 2016 Roberto Pietraforte the Manager of local side AC Wollaton decided that he had had enough of the rigors of organizing fixtures, arranging players to turn up at games on a certain day and time and that it was a constant nightmare to manage. With his passion for the game once as a player…
Eastwood & Kimberley Charity All Stars FC (sponsored by Decathlon UK), an off-shoot of the Notts Sunday League outfit Eastwood & Kimberley, and fronted by that of Rhys Watkinson, are closing in on their first 10k raised for charity, since they burst onto the scenes last summer. Something in which Rhys and his teammates, and…
Local leading tech company, Ideagen, has joined forces with Nottingham Forest Football Club for a major education partnership. Pupils in Nottinghamshire are being inspired to Think Big, as part of a five year transformational education programme, designed to pave the way for an advancing technological future. Global software provider, Ideagen Plc, has joined with Nottingham…
Sometimes what happens on the football field is overshadowed by events off it, more those which are out of your control. At The Rail, home of Retford FC, such an event recently occurred as they presently mourn the loss of their beloved Vice President, Martin ‘Buster’ Keeton, a gentleman who, from the outpouring of condolences…
BBC Commentator Colin Fray suggested after the match at Ashton Gate last night that Lyle Taylor, following his injury time heroics in coming off the bench to score two late goals to give Forest all three points against Bristol City, had “a smile as wide as the Clifton Bridge” and it was great to see…
As we did earlier this year, for International Women’s Day, so we do similar for today and World Mental Health Day; here at the Nottingham Sport we caught up with some of regional athletes to chat about mental health, and their own, personal experiences. One of those sharing their experience, is Emma White, central midfielder…
Basford United have confirmed the charity game for Samantha Birtles will go ahead after she lost her long battle with pancreatic cancer. Samantha, the wife of Nottingham Forest Legend Garry Birtles, was diagnosed in April 2019 and outlived her initial prognosis by more than a year before sadly passing away on Thursday at the age…
West Bridgford Colts is teaming up with leading men’s mental health platform blOKes. The new partnership, which is being celebrated during Mental Health Awareness Week, will see blOKes become main shirt sponsor of the club’s men’s team. They will also have their branding displayed on the back of the men’s second and third team and…
Martin O’Neill, Nigel Clough and Kevin Keegan are among a list of football legends and celebrities confirmed to appear at an all-star charity match to raise money for Treetops Hospice. The fundraising event, taking place at Basford United on Sunday June 27, has been organised by former Nottingham Forest forward Garry Birtles and his wife…
Canadian-born, Nottingham Forest Women’s shot-stopper, Aja Aguirre, is to undertake a Glasgow-Nottingham cycling challenge in memory of her older brother, Xavier, who, in July last year, suddenly, and tragically passed away, having contracted the rare disease known as Amyloidosis. A disorder that is said to be that rare that most medical students and physicians alike…
Basford United are launching their very own “Active February” initiative aimed at promoting exercise to raise mental health awareness during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. United’s Community set-up – which has 500 active members and has been hit hard on several fronts throughout the crisis – are looking for interested members of the public to take…
Nottingham Rugby have issued a statement following the tragic loss of Tom Miller, a player who had recently signed his first professional contract with the Green & Whites having come through the Nottingham Trent University rugby programme. Tom, who was studying business management at NTU, died on the 7th December from a head injury due…
“Irrespective of the area you live in, a little bit really does go a long way. So, if you can go out there and help, please, do so.” Olivia Cook, Nottingham Forest Women. Olivia Cook and Mai Moncaster have been instrumental in helping out their local Christian charity, Hope Nottingham, in recent months, so much…
A 603 mile cycling tour will come to the city this week as a gruelling but well caused fund-raising event stretching a length the same as Lands End to John O’Groats stops off at Nottingham on Thursday from its sixth leg on its journey which starts in Sheffield earlier that day. On Friday morning cyclists…
