Charity football match for Wigan autism group

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Dave Sargent, who has a child who has autism, is organising a celebrity charity football match, Sports stars V Hollyoaks team, in May, to raise funds and awareness of Wigan-based Autism Beaudon Understanding Kindness (ABUK), run by Cordelia Singh.

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00:00 Okay, hi, so my name's Cordelia. I founded the charity APUK almost four years ago now.

00:11 The group's grown significantly in the last few years and I think it's why it's important

00:19 that we do continued fundraising. But I think what's more important, or as important as

00:25 the fundraising, is the raising awareness. There's two words that are associated with

00:31 autism - awareness and acceptance. And I think a better understanding of those words would

00:37 be educating people and also gaining the understanding and the kindness, which is why this football

00:47 match that we've organised, or should I say Dave's organised, is a fantastic opportunity.

00:53 It just gives us a platform to get the community together and just kind of really get people

01:00 more educated. Hi, I'm Dave. I've organised this celebrity charity football match in aim

01:09 for autism because my youngest boy, he's recently been diagnosed, but the whole idea behind

01:16 it was to raise awareness. Obviously we're raising a lot of money as well, which is a

01:21 bonus, but the awareness side of things is the main reason for it. And what better way

01:27 to have a bunch of celebrities to do it for us? So it's the Hollyoaks, the SOAP, it's

01:34 all of the cast of that playing and a bunch of ex-world champion boxers, footballers,

01:39 rugby players, the list goes on. But there's a lot of celebrities as well that are actually

01:46 involved with it and they have kids themselves that are suffering and they're suffering and

01:52 yeah, there's no better way to do it. Can I just also add that the month of April is

02:00 the National Autism Acceptance Month and every year we also do fitness challenges in this

02:06 month. So it's our fourth year of doing it. We've got three challenges going on. We've

02:12 got walk 10,000 steps a day, run 5K a day and we've also got our annual class-a-thon.

02:20 So again, if you can come along and show your support, that would be amazing.

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