After setting out with an preliminary goal to lift £4000, the MAN v FAT Yeovil gamers have now surpassed £6,000, placing them on the prime of the occasion’s fundraising leaderboard.

“Diabetes UK is a charity near lots of our hearts, and being a weight reduction league it ties in very nicely with the journey we’re all on,” explains Aaron.

“We took half within the steps problem as groups, and my very own private workforce managed to do over 10 million steps between the eight of us. The three months of fundraising have been superb and one thing I’ve totally loved organising and being part of. It’s slightly unhappy it has come to an finish so we’re what extra we will do early in 2024 to hold on our efforts, with some smaller fundraising between at times!”

Kevin Ayling, coach of the Yeovil and Weymouth MAN v FAT golf equipment, echoes Aaron’s sentiments: “As a weight reduction soccer membership, we’re acutely aware of our sugar and calorie consumption. We’ve got reversed kind two diabetes with a number of of our males however primarily we did it due to our ball boy Jaden Greatest.

“This little lad has been diabetic for so long as I can bear in mind, at all times carrying round his backpack and now his cell system constantly checking his ranges, being acutely aware of what number of biscuits he eats, what number of occasions he runs across the pitch and at all times listening out for his alarm. He’s a correct trooper who turns up week in week out. It was our flip to do one thing for him.”

And, as Kevin testifies, it wasn’t a simple problem.

“Strolling 26 miles with lads with a BMI of 30-40 for 12 hours on the most well liked day of the yr was one of many hardest challenges and I’m extremely pleased with the lads. But it surely additionally hospitalised me for seven days with dehydration and diverticulitis. However we’re already gearing up for the subsequent problem.”