Charity
Doncaster Rovers work with a number of charitys but most notable NSPCC. Rovers have worked with the NSPCC since the beginning of 2009 and done a number of events in an attempt to raise money. Rovers biggest challenge to date is the Inca Trek which Mark Wilson, James Coppinger and James O'Connor took part in the walk along with other Rovers staff. The 62 mile walk raised almost £50,000 for the NSPCC. Mark Wilson said about the walk "We are doing this challenging trek to raise awareness of the NSPCC and Childline, helping to raise funds to allow them to run this vital service. I have wanted to do something like this for a few years, as it's close to my heart, especially with all the high profile child abuse cases that have been in the news. I wanted to do something to help prevent and put a stop to child abuse, so this is where the idea came from". Rovers have also done a number of chairty football matches, playing in green football kits and selling of shirts.
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Famous quotes containing the word charity:
“Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.”
—“Miss Clark,” U.S. charity worker. As quoted in Petticoat Surgeon, ch. 9, by Bertha Van Hoosen (1947)
“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Having levelled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)