Everyone deserves a Sporting Chance
Would you like to play snooker with a World Champion? Swim with dolphins? Watch a Test Match at the Oval? Sail? Ride? Milk a cow?
Give Them A Sporting Chance is a registered charity which gives carers and those with disabilities, of all ages, the opportunity to make their sporting or recreational dreams come true. Since its foundation in 1990, many people have been helped.
Sport and recreation play important roles in our lives, while the benefits and pleasures of participating in sporting and recreational events have become increasingly apparent. Those of us who can turn our dreams into reality are fortunate indeed. Give Them A Sporting Chance exists to help those special people for whom dreams are much harder to realise.
A glance through our past Sporting Chances will confirm that the most serious illnesses and disabilities present no barrier to dreams. Sadly, those whom we seek to help have many other challenges in their lives to overcome. Give Them A Sporting Chance can make an experience which seemed so out of reach become attainable after all and can help create memories that will last a lifetime.
Take a look through the Sporting Chances which have been experienced here
Give Them a Sporting Chance and The Pacific Row 2012
In spring 2012 Charlie Martell, Give Them A Sporting Chance team member, is setting out to row across the Pacific from Choshi Japan to California USA.
Give Them A Sporting Chance is honoured to have been chosen by Charlie as a recipient charity.
Charlie estimates that the voyage will take six months but is aiming, if it takes longer, to be home for Christmas.
The route has not been rowed solo by a Briton to date and is an estimated 5000 miles.
He has already rowed the Atlantic a voyage of 3317 miles as part of a four man team.
His boat named ‘Blossom’ has been built with the Pacific journey in mind and is seen here being inspected by HRH The Princess Royal at Frogmore.
To see more images of Blossom at Frogmore, click here
To learn more about the voyage, take a look at the official site at www.pacific2012.com
