00:00Hi, my name is Mark Crothers and I'm joined by a very special guest. It is If You Care Share
00:05co-founder Matthew Smith. Matthew is about to start something of an epic challenge to raise
00:10money for the foundation. He will be running from Bournemouth's Vitality Stadium to Newcastle United
00:16St James' Park via every other Premier League stadium. As far as I'm aware, I will be the first
00:23person that will be running the 24-25 season route and I think to these 20 clubs in the order as well.
00:30It's special to finish at St James' Park as well. As a Newcastle United fan we should
00:37bring that up. So the thought of finishing by the
00:42statues of Sir Bobby Robson, Jackie Milburn, Alan Shearer, finishing at the Gallaudet, it's a
00:47special moment or will be a special moment. Yeah, we've hopefully got some pretty
00:53exciting stuff planned with the club as well. But as a fan it's huge but I think also
01:04for me personally and the significance and the association I have for it with Dan.
01:14My first ever game was with my dad and Dan was Everton 6-2 and I was told don't think it's
01:21going to happen like this every game mind and they were right. But I think for me but also for
01:32kind of our community, our organisation, our family and when I say family I mean our If You
01:37Care Share family, to be able to bring this back to the North East is so special. I did often
01:46kind of get asked the question why am I doing national because most of our work is in the
01:52North East but I think what I want to highlight is throughout various different communities across
01:58this country we can come together through football to talk about a subject that we quite often don't
02:05talk about. But also I want to put a platform for the North East nationally of the significance
02:13and the impact that suicide has and we all know that in the North East or most of us know in the
02:18North East but I don't think elsewhere we necessarily know that so I want to be able
02:23to talk about that as well.
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