NORFOLK NIPS | The Great Norfolk Beer Push
The great Norfolk Beer Push for
CANCER AWARENESS 143 miles, 65kg, 9 days, 1 very worthy cause
This campaign, as well as offering a great beer, is known to have saved lives in Norfolk. So, this year David pledged to spread the message all the way from Norfolk to London and aims to get over 1,000 men to pledge to check their balls and spread the word.
In previous editions of Norfolk Nips, we have been pleased to highlight the charity challenge by David Holliday of Team Moon Gazer. David will be pushing a full barrel of beer all the way from The Norfolk Brewhouse, in Hindringham North Norfolk, to St Bart’s Hospital in London and then on to The Houses of Parliament.
The message is simple – 98% of cases of this cancer can be cured very quickly and easily if caught in time – hence the need to encourage men to check their balls. However, just a few weeks’ delay in diagnosis can see the disease spreading aggressively and, tragically, becoming incurable.
This admirable – if slightly bonkers – challenge by David aims to raise awareness of testicular cancer, one of the biggest killers of young men aged 15-34 in the UK. Each January the team at Moon Gazer brew a beer called Fred’s Check to raise awareness of the disease and support the local It’s on The Ball charity.
PLEASE DONATE JUST £2 IF YOU CAN (£1 FOR EACH BALL!) Visit www.justgiving.com and search BeerPushIOTB.
up to 65kg – only about 10kg lighter than David himself. So, he is in effect pushing his body weight 143 miles. But David is hoping it will all be worth it as he explains;
and save lives, it really is as simple as that.”
“Obviously we will have a few pints in the evening and are looking to put on events in local pubs along the route, so keep an eye out. “I wanted to do something During the day we will also different to help the guys at visit schools, work places It’s On The Ball, but I also wanted to highlight the great and clubs, so get in touch if you would like a visit!” job that beer and pubs can do in bringing communities “To be fair, although the together and getting challenge is very hard, its behind causes like this.” While it may sound straight nothing compared to the forward, the challenge is work the Its On the Ball team “If we can get men asking hard. The barrel of beer and the oncology nurses do weighs in at a little over 50kg what we are doing, we – so this is for them really.” and adding the trolley takes it can spread the word So, David has been busy training every day with his bright blue barrel of Moon Gazer – pushing it around the village at the brewery but also around the Norwich ring road. It is obviously quite an unusual sight and David gets plenty of toots and shouts from passing motorists.
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