The Via Feratta Challenge

Meet Hollie Costigan and Carena Duffy who both work for Everton Football Club. Now Carena and Hollie are great mates, and as well as working for the Blues are also ardent fans who follow the lads home and away.

Now they have given up their spare time to do the craziest thing which is train and then climb Via Feratta, or the Iron Road in the Italian Dolomites this Summer. For the lay person out there, its big and hard, and I mean the Mountain, dirty ticket. It does not stop there though, as these two hardy souls will also be bag packing in Tesco, and collecting coins on match days with the good old bucket to raise funds and awareness for Everton In The Community (EITC), the charity that will benefit from their hard graft.

Joining them will be Ron Hutchinson whose is the EITC Fund Raising Manager, and as well as supplying morale support he is carrying the oxygen tanks and the vino de callopso to boot.

Now all the girls ask is can spare a few quid, (to donate click here) as their hard work will go to helping diverse issues such as disabled football teams, sports qualifications for kids, Ladies football, social issues such as stamping out racism, tackling anti social behavior, and pensioners activity programmes. Well played girls and good luck !!

EITC: Charity No: 1099366

These Two Are Climbing This, Rather Them Than Me.....

Practising Hard

Everton In The Community Landmarks

* 350 pupils passed through the Extra Time study centre
* 510 pupils from year 5/6 experienced a Fair Trade programme
* 277 people gained an accredited football / multi sport qualification
* 10,000 pupils were engaged by the HSB initiative
*400 young people have signed up to participate in Kickz (tackling anti social behaviour programme)
* 200 young people with disabilities are engaged every week both in school time and after school activities
* 12 Everton disability teams train and play competitive football every week, engaging up to 50 disabled people
* 300 young people participated in Show Racism the Red Card and Kick Racism out of Football initiatives
* 130 volunteer signed up on EITC Volunteer department, with 70 active across all our departments
* 6 Everton Ladies and Girls teams train and play in competitive football every week, engaging in excess of 100 women and girls
* 1,500 boys and girls signed up for an EITC Soccer School
* 20,000 boys and girls took part in our multi sport programme
* 92 young people were engaged on Prince's Trust initiatives
* 30 families have been engaged in the Everton Active Family Centre
* 11 pensioners are taking part in a 30 week activity programme
* 125 pupils have taken part in a Gifted & Talented programme

Please Dig Deep and Help The Girls Reach Their Target, Their Climbing The Thing, You Can Just Donate By Clicking Here