England Lacrosse staff have raised £2,000 after taking part in the newly launched ‘Bouncing off the Walls’ fundraising campaign over the weekend.
After the official launch of the campaign on Friday, which sees England Lacrosse team up with the Raspberry Pi Foundation to help raise money to buy computers for vulnerable young people, England Lacrosse staff took on the challenge by completing 1,178 wall balls each.
England Lacrosse, on behalf of the staff, then donated £1 for every 10 wall balls each person did totalling a whopping 20,000 wall balls and raising £2,000 in the process.
This is all part of England Lacrosse’s new ‘Bouncing off the Walls’ fundraising campaign which aims to keep the lacrosse community active during the third national lockdown in the space of year while also raising some much needed cash that will be used to buy computer packages for those who need them most.
An estimated 9% of families in the UK do not have access to a laptop, desktop, or tablet at home, according to data published by the Children’s Commissioner in August 2020, and our ‘Bouncing off the Walls’ fundraising campaign hopes to raise enough money to buy at least 100 of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s computer packages.
For less than £200, the Raspberry Pi Foundation can provide a vulnerable young person with everything they need to learn at home, including:
A Raspberry Pi desktop computer;
A monitor;
A webcam;
Educational software;
Ongoing support from a youth worker and the Raspberry Pi Foundation team.
If you’d like to take part in the challenge, then all the information can be found on our dedicated ‘Bouncing off the Walls’ page or you can simply donate an amount of your choice by clicking the donate button below!
You can see how the England Lacrosse staff got on with the #bouncingoffthewalls challenge by watching the video below.