University of Manchester students run charity football tournament in aid of ReachOut

ReachOut Manchester has a longstanding tradition of working closely together with the Univeristy of Manchester's Careers Department. As part of this cooperation, we ran a fundraising project consisting of five university students for the duration of two months.

Their task was to create a fundraising campaign that would raise funds for ReachOut projects and at the same time raise our public profile among the student population in Manchester. The university team decided to run a 5 a side tournament. The event took place last Saturday (no rain!) and we had a fantastic time with over 40 participants. 

We really enjoyed the games and it was a fantastic opportunity to meet many students who were keen to find out about the work of ReachOut. Thanks to the generous donations of Caffe Nero, Morisons and Lucozade we had refreshments throughout the day and amazing prizes for the winners at the and.

A huge thanks should go out to the university students who arranged the tournament. In total we raised £320 (plus we had tons of fun). We are looking forward to arranging another tournament in Spring time!