We are the Rhino’s Colts (under 18’s) of the Kings Norton Rugby football Club (KNRFC) and as a team of young men coming through the challenges of this last covid-19 impacted 12 months, we understand from personal experience the importance of sport and fitness for mental and physical wellbeing. So with this in mind we have set ourselves a “6000 Burpees in an hour” challenge on Sunday 18th April, which for a team of 20 of us means 300 burpees each, 5 per minute over 60 tough gruelling minutes. A burpee starts with a press up on the ground, then you jump up, then drop to the ground, press up, jump up, drop down, repeat, repeat, repeat. Believe us when we say 30 are tough, so 300 each is going to be messy but as a team we are strong!

We’ve taken inspiration from our team mates Uncle who took on the 6000 Burpees challenge himself for The Warrior Within Project and it just felt right to take over the baton from him and to see how much we can raise for them and two other causes really close to our hearts.

So through your generosity the money we raise for our challenge will be split 3 ways and will support;

1) Our own KNRFC Field of Dreams project, with more and more children joining the junior section, space for training is overstretched so the club is raising money to buy a neighbouring field in order to be able to expand the grounds and improve the playing space for current and future rugby players

2) The HB9 Harry Bennett Foundation, dedicated to helping sporting individuals and groups achieve their dreams by helping people through the power of sport, set up in memory of our much loved team mate Harry

3) The Warrior Within Project, set up by Veterans for veterans, and those suffering with mental health related issues such as PTSD, who are raising funds for a minibus to enable them to reach out to as many vets as possible

As an extra incentive to get us to our team target of 6000 BPs and £3500 we’ve had x2 prizes gifted to us to be used to reward the player (coach ?) who hits their individual 300 BP target first and also the player or coach who raises the most financial support through this page (so please name the player or coach you are sponsoring in your comments). Challenge is on!

Just Giving Page Link:
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/kncolts6000burpees?utm_term=agpmMKgdz