Children Today - For A Brighter Tomorrow

United in Business Football Tournament June 5th 2008

Gemini created a wonderful tournament for 8 teams, with participating companies from Royal Bank of Scotland, Progress Software, Reaction Records, Abacus and GOVNET amongst others, with 8 players per team. Each team was managed by an ex-Manchester United legend who provided the benefit of their wealth of experience to their players, along with a little of the Manchester United magic.

 The Tournament took place at Manchester United’s state of the art training facility at Carrington. Usually off-limits to everyone except the Manchester United team and coaching staff, Gemini secured exclusive access for this tournament and hosted a thrilling series of games, with support from members of the Manchester United coaching staff.

  Once the Royal Bank of Scotland had been awarded the honour of winning the tournament, all the players and supporters transferred to Old Trafford for a gala dinner and auction. Using the stadium’s stunning facilities Gemini staged an auction with a host of excellent lots. The star lot was undoubtedly David Beckham’s 100^th England cap which generated huge amounts of interest and £2,500.00 alone for Children Today. Later in the evening once the music and celebrations had started the group were joined by Manchester United’s latest additions to their trophy cabinet, the Champion’s League Trophy and the Premier League Trophy. This provided yet another highlight to the day with people invited to pose for photographs with the magnificent silverware and to take away some truly special memories of their time with Manchester United and Gemini.

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300 people attended a marvellous Ascot Ladies Day event on 19th June at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton, organised by Audrey McIlroy.

With the help of Betfair and a wonderful auction the event raised in excess of £5000 for Children Today. Thanks again to all who were involved. To see more pictures please visit our facebook page.

Saturday 21st June was a very wet day at Platt Fields Manchester… and not just from the rain!

12 intrepid teams took part in our It’s a Knockout! with the utterly brilliant Timmy Mallett adding extra wackiness to the proceedings

Thanks to the Manchester Evening News for their support and pictures

The next It’s a Knockout Challenges are on Saturday 26th July in Sheffield and Saturday 9th August in Liverpool. If you know anyone who would like to enter a team please contact Children Today on 01244 335622.

Saturday May 10th was the first of our summer series of It’s a Knockout! events taking place at Longford Park in Coventry. It was a fantastic day with the “utterly brilliant” Timmy Mallett on hand to ensure everyone enjoyed themselves fully! 8 intrepid teams took part in this fabulously fun event, getting wet, sunburnt, bumped and bruised (not to mention Malleted!) and generally having a fantastic time. Thanks to Hannah from BBC Coventry & Warwickshire for these pictures. Thanks to the following teams for taking part and raising funds:

• Barclays Contact Centre, Birmingham
• Circus Casino, Birmingham
• David Wilson Homes, Coventry
• Glade-Tech Ltd, Redditch
• House to Home, Sutton Coldfield
• Seton Health & Safety, Banbury
• WSP Group, Birmingham

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On Sunday May 18th the It’s a Knockout crew headed south to Kent County Showground for another day full of fun and foam! Our huge thanks go to the following teams who took part and raised funds for Children Today:

• Acxiom Limited
• Bedfont Scientific Limited
• D & R Jointing
• Fugro Seismic Imaging
• Hartsdown Technology College
• Ikon Office Solutions
• Instant Link UK Limited
• Powakaddy International Limited
• Sarena MFG Limited
• Summit Aviation
• United House Limited

The next It’s a Knockout Challenge takes place on Saturday June 21st in Manchester. If you know any companies who would like to enter a team please contact Children Today on 01244 335622.

This will be our third adrenalin packed adventure challenge event in association with the Professional Footballers’ Association. For details please click here and visit our microsite.