Richard Beattie:
I currently help run a prodigy fan page on Facebook and as we reached 1500 members the idea to do some thing good with the help of all those followers played on my mind.
I spoke to a few of my very knowledgable prodigy warriors and we came up with a fan inspired charity t-shirt.
Having spoke to the bands management we managed to get the band onboard as they love to support charities.
My good friend Darren from graffiti kings www.graffitikings.co.uk designed some great shirts and we got the band to choose which design they liked…..from there we promoted it within Facebook and most of the other social media sites and after being on general sale for only 24hrs they sold out raising lots of money for our chosen charity Worldwide Cancer Research.
This then gave me the idea to carry on with raising as much money as possible and I approached my barber who is opening a brand new barbers in Westcroft and asked if he would interested in shaving my head and beard off for charity. I set up a ‘brave the shave’ giving page and am asking as many people as possible to sponsor me.
This is very close to my heart at the moment as my mother inlaw is currently fighting this horrible disease.