A DISABLED football team has a new strip thanks to the fundraising efforts of a group of children.
Daniel Stubbings, 14, who has cerebral palsy, is goalkeeper for the Durham Area Disability Leisure Group (DADLG) football team.
When his friends from Sedgefield Community College found out the team had no strip to play in they decided to do something about it.
They approached the school's head of PE, Lee Hogarth, who agreed to organise a sponsored run for ten students.
He said: "They all had a day off timetable to do the run. We worked out they all ran about nine miles each during the day and they all worked really hard."
Their efforts raised just over £200, which enabled them to buy a kit and present it to the team.
Darren's mother, Karen Stubbings, from Fishburn, said: "All of the children that access the DADLG have a disability and it is quite unique in this area for such a football team to exist.
"It was the children themselves who suggested they would like to help raise some funds and I was absolutely delighted.
"I was bowled over with it because you hear so many terrible stories about kids misbehaving and this was a lovely gesture. These children went ahead and did something off their own backs."
The DADLG football team will have the chance to air their strips in a match against the schoolchildren who raised the money.
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