Woodside Place Care Home Care Home in Telford, raising money for Huntingtons Disease with a footy event.

Shropshire Star

The Care Home even had a special visit from a Telford Town Football player, as they hald a special footy event, raising money for a Huntingtons Disease Charity.

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00:00Right, here we go. Huntington's Disease Association, where are we? We're at a nursing home.

00:11Woodside Place. And what's your name? Emma. Emma, you've had a bit of a special event going on today, haven't you?

00:18Yeah, today we've been raising money for Huntington's Disease by doing a penalty shootout between our staff and our service users.

00:25As one of our service users, he's living with Huntington's and football is very close to his heart.

00:32That's Darren there in the back, isn't it? It is, with a red T-shirt.

00:35Yeah, the Liverpool fan, that's probably why he's got the red T-shirt. So yeah, raising awareness.

00:39You've even had a Telford player visit you earlier on, haven't you? Telford United.

00:43I can't remember, Esther. Yeah, cool. Which you bought a signed football that one of our service users' families won.

00:51And how did you manage? You had a few shots at goals. Did you get one in?

00:55Two out of five, so I didn't do too bad. Yeah, yeah.

00:58Hey Darren!

01:01Sally's in goal!

01:06Come on Darren! Come on Darren! Go!

01:09Nice Darren!

01:11Oh!

01:12Nice!

01:13Oh!

01:15Watch out Sal!

01:17So Darren, you're a Liverpool man!

01:21Nice Darren!

01:22Darren, why's he scored?

01:23Best team in the world.

01:27So where do you, do you live here at the home then, do you?

01:30Yeah, I sort of live here at the moment.

01:33Yeah, yeah. And have you enjoyed the day today?

01:35Yeah, it's been quite a good day and we've sort of had a kick around.

01:39And we've also raised money really for Hunters at the same time.

01:44Yeah. And you play football every week over Telford away, don't you?

01:47Yeah, and they're actually set up really.

01:50Yeah, yeah, good to look.

01:51We're a disabled team and they're pretty good really, so...

01:54Well you've got to say that, you're in it!

01:56Yeah, it's quite a good kick around.

01:58Well you've just banged in a good goal, so we'll let you carry on. Well done sir.

02:01Go on Dan!

02:07Go on Dan!

02:09Oh!

02:11Hey!

02:12You've even had special shirts, go on, turn around, let's have a look at the back.

02:17Cool, number 10, cool.

02:19So who's done that for you?

02:20Crown Print in Maigley.

02:22So big shout out to them guys.

02:23We went down there and we spoke to him and he was happy to help us and he did 22

02:29and he even helped us with one of our t-shirts that we didn't have for our service users.

02:34Oh great.

02:35And he gave us that as well.

02:37And how much have you raised so far then?

02:39It's just under £600 at the moment and we have got just a given page up on social media.

02:48Yeah.

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