Sport Relief
19th - 21st March 2010
What is it? What does it do? What's happening? What can I do?.
Sport Relief is a fundraising event that takes place every two years. It aims to use the power and passion of sport to change lives for the better.
Comic Relief spends the money raised through Sport Relief to help vulnerable people living incredibly tough lives both at home in the UK and in the world's poorest countries.
£5 would buy a year's supply of pens and pencils for 5 street children in Bangladesh. Living in extreme poverty these are often the only possessions they own.
£50 would buy chairs, desks and blackboards for 70 children in Bangladesh to go to school after they finish work each day. They earn 15p a day which helps to feed their families.
Special versions of favourite programmes on TV over Sport Relief Weekend:
Masterchef
Top Gear
A Question of Sport Relief
Strictly Come Dancing
Gavin & Stacy
The Sport Relief Mile Show
Challenges this year include:
Helen Skelton (from Blue Peter) is rising to the challenge for Sport Relief in an incredibly impressive way – she is attempting to be the first woman in history to solo kayak the Amazon River. It will take six long weeks to complete her frankly unbelievable challenge, and she’ll cover 2,010 miles in total!Christine Bleakley (from The One Show) is channelling all her energy to water-ski across the English Channel for Sport Relief! That’s a seriously physically demanding thing to do – particularly as Christine has never water-skied before. She’s been training hard since October so she’s good and ready to rise to the challenge for Sport Relief.
Lawrence Dallaglio is cycling round the Six Nations stadiums with a whole host of celebrity friends and supporters - all net proceeds will be split equally between Sport Relief and the Dallaglio Foundation.
Sunday 21st March 2010:
People all over the UK will be taking to the streets for the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile. From Belfast to Brighton, Gateshead to Glasgow and Sheffield to Swansea, people of all ages are rising to the challenge for Sport Relief.
