Category: Football

We’re proud to say that Karl Henry, who now plays for Queens Park Rangers having moved from Wolverhampton Wanderers in the summer, is still lending us his support at his new club. QPR, too, are promoting our nationwide campaign and the club-specific educational booklet we’ve produced for them: One in five of all those living…

There’s a superb story on the West Bromwich Albion website, which covers its players’ support of Saving Lives – as well as a visit from the Walsall Centre For Sexual Health, to whose clinics we’re providing posters this National HIV Testing Week: IT’S National HIV Testing Week – and Albion are helping to spread a…

More great awareness-raising by the country’s football clubs: huge thanks to Sunderland FC, who in addition to promoting our Sunderland FC booklet on their website have helped us achieve some great local exposure in the Sunderland Echo. Here’s part of that newspaper story: SUNDERLAND AFC players are urging people to tackle the issue of HIV. Midfielder…

Many thanks to Everton Ladies Football Club, which has posted a story about the support shown by their players Toni Duggan, Fern Whelan and Rachel Brown-Finnis to Saving Lives. Our current National HIV Testing Week campaign features an Everton Ladies booklet full of images of the players – many thanks to Everton for promoting it.…

Football clubs continue to support Saving Lives, and most especially our National HIV Testing Week 2013 campaign: posters and booklets featuring players across the country. Our ambassadors are promoting the importance of HIV testing, and fighting stigma at the same time. At Fulham, Darren Bent and Damien Duff are supporting the campaign, as a news…

Football Saving Lives Ambassador and Liverpool Ladies striker, Natasha Dowie, has two great reasons to be cheerful this weekend: she’s just been named PFA player of the season, and is the only footballer to be shortlisted for the BT Action Woman Awards. Many congratulations, Natasha – fantastic work! You can read our Liverpool Ladies educational…

Sky Sports Football Pundit, England and Wolves Goalkeeper Matt Murray was the original founding Football Saving Lives ambassador. Matt joined Football Saving Lives at the same time as Stylian Petrov. We caught up with him recently at the Wolves training ground, when he explained why he became involved with the Saving Lives charity – and…

Excellent news for one of our footballing advocates: Everton’s Toni Duggan has been named North West Player of the Year! Toni Duggan saw off Liverpool captain Gemma Bonner and team-mate Nikita Parris to be named Women’s Player of the Year at the North West Football Awards on Monday night. The Blues has been in scintillating…

More great news for women’s football in the UK – Great Britain won gold at this year’s World Summer University Games. The twenty-seventh Universiade was held in Kazan, Russia, and features a huge number of sports – including women’s soccer, in which Team GB triumphed against Mexico yesterday, 6-2. Birmingham City’s Kerys Harrop was in the…