Barnoldswick Town will host this weekend s fixture SUPPORTING Charities FC prepare for a clash of the titans this weekend, as they come up against their neighbours Bradford City Veterans. The Bradford based club, who are predominantly made up of ex professional footballers and TV stars, will travel to Barnoldswick this Sunday to take on the City Veterans. They have faced their opposition on three occasions in the past and have beat them twice in those meetings. As many will know, the club’s main goal is to be a Celebrity Charity Football Club, where they compete all over the UK, raising funds for many Organisations and Charities close to their heart.
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Georgia Thornton, pictured at Valley Parade and with Bradford City striker Billy Clarke, is again raising funds for the Bradford Burns Unit this year A TEENAGER is looking to break the £10,000 barrier for her Bradford City-inspired online fundraising in aid of the Burns Unit. Georgia Thornton, 14, was a regular at Bantams matches at Valley Parade, pre-pandemic, selling claret and amber-coloured ribbons in aid of the unit. She has raised more than £8,700 for the burns unit by selling the ribbons since November 2017. This included £1,632 from last year s appeal. But with football still sidelined due to the coronavirus pandemic, Georgia, who lives in Morecambe but is a City season ticket holder, is auctioning off a series of Bantams, or more general football, memorabilia for the cause.
A PAIR of Bradford musicians will see their work featured on the final episode of a major BBC drama next week. David Nowakowski and Andy Ruddy have worked together to provide music for the series finale of The Syndicate on BBC One next Tuesday night. Faultlines will be featured over the end scene and into the credits of the programme. Mr Nowakowski also has a piano track on the final episode of The Syndicate called ‘The Walk’. The six-part series, written by Kay Mellor, has followed the fortunes of a group of lottery winners and is set between Monaco and Yorkshire.
A POPULAR Bradford City fan, who escaped the Valley Parade Fire Disaster, sadly passed away earlier today with a brain tumour. Paul Firth wrote about his harrowing experience on that fateful May day in 1985 in his 2005 book, Four Minutes To Hell: The Story Of The Bradford City Fire. He suffered from smoke inhalation, while father-in-law Arnold Whitehead broke a rib and endured burns to his scalp, which required a skin graft. Mr Firth, a former stipendary magistrate and district judge who retired in 2005, estimated that sales of his book have raised thousands for the Bradford Burns Unit. In 2009, he contributed just short of another £1,000 to the unit by completing the City of Salford 10k race in under 60 minutes.