As many who read often will know little man had HFA or Aspergers as most commonly known, these children have fixations and are passionate about things, these passions tend to last the whole of their lives, they also go through phrases as other children do, my little man has 3 Loves, Football (Everton) cars and Eddie Stobart.
Sunday 20th January 2013, hubby was reading the Everton Website from his phone as he always does and spotted this Mascot Prize up for grabs, I read with interest and then started a little fundraising campaign of my own, Social Media can be such a good thing sometimes, I managed to get 11 people, Our friends and My family to place a £10 Donation on the Just giving site.
My Mum and dad, My Niece, Kathy one of my best friends, Myself and Hubby, Rob little mans match day buddy, David who owns a local coffee shop (pippins coffee house), Jackie a work mate, Bernie a friend and work mate, Les and Debbie another 2 wonderful friends… I personally wish to thank you all for helping. I do understand many don’t have the money to donate but the positive wishes from all helped.
A short video of him being told the news
What do Everton in the community do?
The Blues’ official charity is proud of its impressive achievements which include:
- Supporting 1,500 local charities a year
- Contributing to a 55% reduction in anti-social behaviour and a 79% reduction in crime in challenging areas across Merseyside
- 100% success rate on all education programmes
- Assisting 50% of participants on the employment programme to return to work
- 26 disability teams
above taken from Everton in the Community, Please if you can press that donate button and help them achieve the goal of £1 million for this year, as you can see they help so many people in many different ways,
Inclusion for all
How have they Helped little man?
- An activity which has discipline
- Helps him to socialise
- Accepts others
- Gives him boundries to adhere to
- Team Player
- Made friends that understand him more than most do
Ok so we are not fully there with all of the above but 1 year on we can see such an improvement in his behavior, attitude and enthusiasm for actually having a go at new things
Previous post showing the fun they have
Oh and if you haven’t guessed yet, Little Man won one of the 2 prizes up for grabs and will be fulfilling a dream on Saturday, he will be walking out with his dream team on the hallowed Turf of Goodison, so please if you watch MotD lets hope they show it 
I am sooooo happy to have played my small part in making this happen for Ollie – should be a truly amazing day for him
xxxx
And we are so grateful for it also thank you, your an amazing friend and I hope your dad watches xxx
Angie that is great news and I loved the video, such a natural response from him, he really was blown away! Hope you all have a great day!
Thank you so much, we have a camcorder for the day now also, so more video and lots of images
#notexcited honestly…lol.. X
Aw bless. That video made me cry. The very definition of speechless on hearing the news. I am so happy for your little man. What a brilliant thing to get to do. Just brilliant.
Thank you so much and yes speechless is not a word usually associated with him
We’ve got the TiVo box all set to record MOTD! Hope the little dude has an AMAZING day
Thank you…hubby says he will be the one who has the most coverage when he escapes and runs down the pitch
xxx
What a wonderful thing to happen for him – he will have the most amazing time and remember this for the rest of his life! I do hope it gets shown on MoTD
Thank you, yes we are hoping also, if not I will have it on you tube by Sunday
and on the blog of course xxx
This is so so lovely, dreams can come true!!!
Thank you, yes they can and I’m so grateful to all who helped make it happen x
That has just made me have a tear in my eyes to see his little face light up am so glad that we could help, his dream come alive xx
Wow. Auntie Kath with a tear in her eye, thank you so much for helping and always being there for us….big hugs to his godmother
xxx
What a fab video, soooo happy for you and little man.
Thank you so much, we just hope he doesn’t decide to run the pitch
after pinching the ball…lol.. X
wow what a fab prize and opportunity. My dyl would love to get onto villa park! even though they are having the worst season!!
thank you, I’m hoping that the form gets better…after tomorrow
x
Awww this is amazing! my hubby was so super impressed! I am loving his PJ’s!!
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