Thanks to the generous offer of Mansfield Town FC Chairman Andy Perry, former Mansfield Town apprentice Jamie Walker will host his fifth annual charity football match at Field Mill on Sunday April 25th, kick off 3pm.
Tickets for the game are:
£6.00 Adults £4.50
The two teams will be Jamie Walker and Scott Sellars Select XI versus The TV Soap Stars XI who are managed by Daniel Jillings (ex-Coronation Street) of E and D Management. Daniel’s team will have players from various soaps including Hollyoaks, Shameless, Doctors, Casualty, Coronation Street, Waterloo Road, Emmerdale Farm and others. Jamie and Scott’s team will include former Mansfield Town and Premiership legends including Simon Coleman, Andy Beasley, Les McJannet, Bobby McDonals and many others. All proceeds from the game will be shared between three charities – The Lymphoma Association (Jamie’s chosen charity), Kings’ Mill Hospital Children’s Ward (Andy Perry’s chosen charity) and The Nicholas Fund (which takes terminally ill children on holiday and is Daniel Jilling’s chosen charity).
The fifth annual seven-a-side tournament will take place before the game with the final to be played at half time for the Jamie Walker Fundraising Trophy which is currently held by the Bolsover College team. It will be a great family day out with a raffle which has a first prize of a family holiday for four people to one of the Center Parcs’ villages along with several other prizes, there will also be a sporting memorabilia auction. Former Stags star Alex Baptiste will be making a guest appearance.
The first charity match was in 2006 after Jamie was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes) in November 2005, he had to undergo six months’ chemotherapy and one month’s radiotherapy treatment. The Walker family decided they would like to raise money to help others in a similar situation and the first charity match took place in May 2006 followed by a sportsman’s dinner in November 2006. Since then there have been three further charity matches and two further sportsman’s dinners which in total, have raised almost £50,000 with the money divided between the King’s Mill Hospital Haematology Department, (where Jamie was treated), The Lymphoma Association and The Lymphoma Research Trust. Jamie and his family were recently nominated for the Beacons of Hope Award organized by the Lymphoma Association at the City Hall in London. Jamie is now working as a cadet airline pilot for Atlantic Airlines and is almost three years in remission.