Doing it for Dan is a grant giving charity set up in 2016 in memory of 11 year old Daniel Climance.
We provide grants for sports related items such as equipment, kit, coaching and club fees, helping young people to achieve their sporting dreams.
Daniel, or Dan as he was known to his friends and family, sadly lost his life in a road traffic accident in 2015 leaving a deep hole in the lives of all who knew him.
Dan was kind, caring, and was at his happiest when playing sport. He played football for Wootton Bassett U11 team and prior to that had played for Highworth Town Juniors. He had also completed his second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Through Doing it for Dan we can help other children to achieve their sporting dreams and fulfil their potential. We know this is something that Dan would be very proud of.
Doing it For Dan raises the majority of its own funds with the help of our trustees and volunteers as well as amazing people doing crazy things for sponsorship! We couldn’t help children to achieve their sporting potential without that support, enthusiasm and encouragement.
Helen, alongside Daniel’s Dad Stuart and extended family, founded the charity in 2016 in Dan’s memory. Having watched Dan’s love of playing sport it seemed a natural choice to set up a charity that would help other children achieve their sporting ambitions.
Helen spearheads the charity. She is the ‘ideas’ person and keeps everyone else in the team busy! She is also a solicitor, Mum to Dan’s brothers Robbie and Noah and an expert gin-taster!
Close family friend
Claire is a close friend of Helen and her family – her son Callum was also Daniel’s best friend.
Claire works hard to ensure the charity admin is always up to date and is an integral part of the team providing lots of energy and ideas to move the charity forward. Claire makes the best lemon drizzle cake (which is always welcome at trustee meetings!) and probably has the biggest gin collection in Wiltshire.
Close family friend
Darren is a family friend with several years Trustee experience at Flourishing Together, a charity that helps the wellbeing of children and their parents.
Darren is sport mad and has raised money for many charities over the years including Sports Aid, supporting our future Olympians. He is excited to share his experience with DIFD and help local children achieve their sporting goals.
Marketing & PR Guru
Graham is married to Helen and is our Marketing and PR guru. His energy is a fantastic asset to the charity and always makes sure we remember to have fun even when we are working hard. He loves all sports and although sadly his own competitive sporting days are over he is passionate about helping children to compete in the sport they love.
We believe that every child deserves the right to access sport and fulfil their sporting potential. A grant from us can remove the financial barriers to sport that some children face and make sport a level playing field for all.
Our grant recipients are better equipped and generally have greater self belief, confidence and motivation to do well, increasing their sporting performance.
With little or no other access to financial support the bank of mum and dad can sometimes run dry. With our help children can continue to train, compete and participate in sport.
For a sport where there is no central funding even at Elite/GB level, grants like this make a huge difference in so many ways. Eirlys was always very proud to have been a recipient and to honour the memory of Dan. The trustees have done a brilliant job. The huge number of grant recipients that have been helped by Doing It For Dan is phenomenal.
We couldn’t have done it without the support we have had over the years. A massive thank you to Doing it for Dan for giving Comfort the opportunity – you have been amazing!
Without the generosity of Doing for Dan Toby may never have been able to join team GB and make his dreams come true. We are eternally grateful for the support the charity has given us.
We are so grateful to Doing it for Dan for the financial support over the last few years which has made it possible for Alex to be part of the Swindon Wildcats Ice Hockey team. As a single mum there is no way that I could have afforded this without your help. Doing it for Dan is an awesome charity and we feel absolutely blessed that you have helped Alex. We can’t thank you enough!
Without the past support from Doing it for Dan, for which I am hugely grateful, I wouldn’t have been able to compete at all the important/major events or have the right shoes and clothing for both events and training. Thank you so much for your ongoing support which has helped make it possible for me to represent England this year.
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