Category: Football
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The FA WSL season began yesterday, featuring many of our ambassadors, advocates and supporters. We’ll be keeping a keen eye on the whole league this season, since we enjoy the support of players from most of the league’s top clubs, including Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Birmingham, Everton, Bristol and more. Read more about our women’s…
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Fantastic news for England Ladies and for Saving Lives ambassador Toni Duggan in particular: Toni Duggan scored a hat-trick as England sauntered to a 9-0 victory over Montenegro in Mark Sampson’s first home match in charge, cementing their place at the top of World Cup qualifying Group 6. The Manchester City striker started the rout in the…
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Birmingham City defender Jonathan Spector, and captain Paul Robinson, featured in our National HIV Testing Week 2013 campaign (you can see the Birmingham City educational booklet here), and continue to act as ambassadors for Saving Lives. In this video, they talk about why they support the charity – and about the facts around HIV.
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Sammy Ameobi and Vurnon Anita, who play for Tyneside giants Newcastle United, have agreed to become Football Saving Lives advocates alongside fellow North-East stars Craig Gardner and Steven Fletcher, who play for Sunderland. You can read more about Sammy here, and more about Vurnon here. In addition, our Newcastle United club booklet is now available…
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England and Chelsea Ladies star Eniola Aluko appears in our latest Football Saving Lives video, talking about her career, why she’s supporting the charity, and how getting an HIV test really can save lives. Watch it in full below!
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This piece originally appeared at the Huffington Post … This week is National HIV Testing Week, leading up to World Aids Day 2013 on 1 December. The question is, how many of you were aware of this – and what can we do to enhance that awareness? For too long, educational messages about HIV/AIDS, and about the…
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There was a great interview with the brilliant Curtis Davies in yesterday’s Independent – you can read it here. It’s wide-ranging and interesting, and includes a mention of Saving Lives and our work: His involvement in all aspects of St Andrew’s life did not convey the impression that his third Midlands club was a staging…
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An excellent piece by Cath Mackie featured on today’s BBC Midlands Today regional news programme, focusing on our campaign and featuring our founding Football Saving Lives ambassador, Matt Murray: Health experts in the West Midlands are calling for testing for HIV to be offered routinely by GPs and hospitals. More than 5,000 people in the…
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Wolverhampton Wanderers and players Sam Ricketts, Wayne Hennessey, Danny Batth, Razak Boukari and more are supporting our National HIV Testing Week campaign. You can read the Wolves-themed educational booklet here, and look at the fantastic story the club have published in their match day programme for us by clicking the image to the right. Huge…
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Villa captain Ron Vlaar has been joined by several of his team-mates in supporting Saving Lives this National HIV Testing Week. Along with Fabian Delph and Ciaran Clark, he appears in our Aston Villa educational booklet: Ron Vlaar and Fabian Delph are supporting a nationwide campaign to encourage more people to get tested for HIV…