Doncaster top of the league for prostate fundraising
Fans and players at South Yorkshire’s top football clubs have been giving prostate cancer a kick as they raise money to help highlight the signs and symptoms and save lives.
Top of the league this year are Doncaster Rovers whose staff and supporters have raised over £30,000 by taking on sponsored challenges including distance running, cycling and walking.
Rovers’ manager Grant McCann recently spoke to The Guardian newspaper about his colleagues’ efforts to run 10k a day during October helping to boost funds and raise awareness of the cancer that affects one in eight men in the UK each year and claims around 12,000 lives.
He told The Guardian: “You hear stories about people’s families, dads, uncles, grandads and it just hits home. People might be getting bored of me on social media, posting my runs on X and Strava, but we’re doing it for a reason: to raise awareness and for people to understand this disease is taking too many lives.”
Hundreds of staff and fans at all our South Yorkshire teams join the common cause each year as part of Prostate United, a Prostate Cancer UK football league that originated in South Yorkshire at Rotherham United and now boasts over 60 clubs nationwide as members.
Doncaster’s Rovers currently head the 2024 table followed closely by the Owls and the Blades, then Barnsley’s Tykes and Rotherham’s Millers.
Pictured with members of his coaching team is Rovers’ manager Grant McCann (second from right) who personally clocked up almost 200 miles during the fundraising month this autumn.
Picture by Paul Greenwood.
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Learn more about the Prostate United story here: https://prostateunited.prostatecanceruk.org/about
