The Care Home even had a special visit from a Telford Town Football player, as they hald a special footy event, raising money for a Huntingtons Disease Charity.
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00:00Right, here we go. Huntington's Disease Association, where are we? We're at a nursing home.
00:11Woodside Place. And what's your name? Emma. Emma, you've had a bit of a special event going on today, haven't you?
00:18Yeah, today we've been raising money for Huntington's Disease by doing a penalty shootout between our staff and our service users.
00:25As one of our service users, he's living with Huntington's and football is very close to his heart.
00:32That's Darren there in the back, isn't it? It is, with a red T-shirt.
00:35Yeah, the Liverpool fan, that's probably why he's got the red T-shirt. So yeah, raising awareness.
00:39You've even had a Telford player visit you earlier on, haven't you? Telford United.
00:43I can't remember, Esther. Yeah, cool. Which you bought a signed football that one of our service users' families won.
00:51And how did you manage? You had a few shots at goals. Did you get one in?
00:55Two out of five, so I didn't do too bad. Yeah, yeah.
00:58Hey Darren!
01:01Sally's in goal!
01:06Come on Darren! Come on Darren! Go!
01:09Nice Darren!
01:11Oh!
01:12Nice!
01:13Oh!
01:15Watch out Sal!
01:17So Darren, you're a Liverpool man!
01:21Nice Darren!
01:22Darren, why's he scored?
01:23Best team in the world.
01:27So where do you, do you live here at the home then, do you?
01:30Yeah, I sort of live here at the moment.
01:33Yeah, yeah. And have you enjoyed the day today?
01:35Yeah, it's been quite a good day and we've sort of had a kick around.
01:39And we've also raised money really for Hunters at the same time.
01:44Yeah. And you play football every week over Telford away, don't you?
01:47Yeah, and they're actually set up really.
01:50Yeah, yeah, good to look.
01:51We're a disabled team and they're pretty good really, so...
01:54Well you've got to say that, you're in it!
01:56Yeah, it's quite a good kick around.
01:58Well you've just banged in a good goal, so we'll let you carry on. Well done sir.
02:01Go on Dan!
02:07Go on Dan!
02:09Oh!
02:11Hey!
02:12You've even had special shirts, go on, turn around, let's have a look at the back.
02:17Cool, number 10, cool.
02:19So who's done that for you?
02:20Crown Print in Maigley.
02:22So big shout out to them guys.
02:23We went down there and we spoke to him and he was happy to help us and he did 22
02:29and he even helped us with one of our t-shirts that we didn't have for our service users.
02:34Oh great.
02:35And he gave us that as well.
02:37And how much have you raised so far then?
02:39It's just under £600 at the moment and we have got just a given page up on social media.
02:48Yeah.