Parliament’s football team presents cancer charity with 10k
This week, the fight against prostate cancer was given a boost when £10,000 was donated to the cause at a football match in which parliamentarians took on a leading charity.
UK Parliament Football Club suffered a resounding defeat at the hands of Prostate Cancer UK’s Men United XI at Fulham’s Motspur Park on Tuesday.
The Parliamentarians, captained by Sheffield South East MP Clive Betts were beaten 6-2, despite a valiant effort.
Prostate Cancer UK is one of the current official charity partners of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Football.
At the end of the match the charity was handed a cheque for £10,000 from funds raised throughout the year through UKPFC to go towards extensive research and services programmes.
Prostate Cancer UK is also an official charity partner of Fulham FC, who supported the match by hosting the game and putting forward former Cottagers star Sean Davis as an honorary member of Men United.
Dr Sarah Cant, Director of Policy and Strategy at Prostate Cancer UK said: “We are hugely grateful to the UKPFC for all their support over recent years and for today’s generous donation of £10,000, which echoes the 10,000 lives which are lost to prostate cancer every year.
“We will continue to work closely with MPs at a local and national level, to get men with prostate cancer the better diagnosis, treatments and services they desperately need.”
Men United is Prostate Cancer UK’s movement for everyone who believes men are worth fighting for. People are being urged to show their support and sign up by visiting www.prostatecanceruk.org/menunited
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