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Great Ormond Street Hospital, Wetherby School, Gary Linekar.
June 2009
Gary Lineker teamed up with Wetherby School, a member
of the Alpha Plus Group, on a project involving over 13,000 Premiership football
cards for children at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Gary Lineker is Patron
of Great Ormond Street Hospital's Tick Tock Club - an appeal seeking to raise
L10 million towards a new Children's Kidney Centre and to fund vital research.
The Wetherby boys, aged between 4 and 8, organised the collection of the cards and spent one of their Saturdays at Wetherby compiling them into books for the children at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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The boy who initiated this project, Konrad
Tillman said:
“I saw a boy wearing a Chelsea strip on the Great Ormond Street Hospital
website and thought about how much children there might like to have football
cards. I told my Headmaster (Mark Snell) my idea and he told the whole
school. We all love the cards and sharing them seemed like a good idea”
Gary Lineker said:
“It’s great that the boys at Wetherby managed to collect so many cards
which I am sure the kids in the hospital will enjoy.”
The project was supported by Henry Ts Entertainment, a charitable
organisation which seeks to empower young people.
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