 Welgym yn y toff i TV, we are here to talk about the If You Know Your History event. Dwi o'n meddwl i'n bai Carina Duffy from Everton in the community. Dwi o'n meddwl i'n meddwl Alan Rothwell from BTR, Liverpool BTR, ydyn ni? But this isn't it. Just BTR. Just BTR, just BTR. Just BTR. What is BTR, thank you? Born to run. I'll get it. Dy, i gau Born to run. Dy, i gau. Guys, thank you very much for coming in to talk about this and Everton running event. If you know your history. So, who's going to give me the introduction to what it is? Wel, the event itself is clearly focused on the history of the club. But the ambition of the event is to help contribute significantly to the fundraising efforts of Everton in the community. And the people's place, which is a million pound build, is going well, but it needs to go better. And the 5K run, jog and walk, so there's no excuse as to people saying I can't run 5K, which is three miles. Anyone can take part. And we've got it. So it begins by the Prince Rupert Tower. And the whole course is a trip through the 141 years of history of the club. It goes past all the salient points. So it's a bespoke course just for Everton. And so really there's no excuse not to get involved and support this fantastic course. Lwch ddim i twis when you've said there's no excuse. Yes. Three times. I mean, I think it's a fantastic. For anybody who doesn't know where these places are in Everton's history, it's an opportunity to see that. Karina, obviously Alan then just mentioned the people's place project, which is the million pound. It's a massive, massive thing for the city, isn't it, as well? Not just Everton in the community, not just that area, but for the city itself. And how hard is it to raise funds at these times? Obviously it's really hard, but what we have to do in the fundraising department is to just keep looking at all utilising events like this, coming up with things whereby we think that the fan might be interested in getting involved, looking outside the box at times in terms of how do we engage with people that aren't in the city? We were international because we got some feedback from some fan surveys that we've put out and what we're trying to do as well as to run on the day and engage them with people on the day in the room. We're looking at expanding that out to the international fan base to do something virtual whereby we'll have people around the world participating in the event or in their own 5k fund runs, but they will receive the medal, the t-shirts and everything that we will give to the runner who participates in the actual event, but also internationally as well. Fantastic. Alan, obviously mental health is a big thing nowadays and rightly so as well. It's being recognised which is one of the biggest things and something like the people's place, it's needed isn't it let's be honest? Sadly it's needed and it's very necessary and hopefully the run will do two things. It will make people aware of the facility, it will make people aware of the three things actually, it will make people aware of mental issues anyway and also it will help people perhaps kickstart a fitness campaign of their own. Lots of people who run in our races regularly aren't necessarily football fans so we're trying to put an arm around the Everton football fan base and say come and have a go with this, you'll learn something on the day because for instance I didn't know the name of the toffee girl ever, I've never known until last week and I found out it's Molly Buschell. Who knew? Well I didn't anyway. So the events in and of itself, it's multi-layered, it's about health and fitness, it's about raising awareness for the very good work that Everton and the community do, it's about participation, it's about learning something new and potentially different about the club, it's about getting involved. I think also people who have suffered with mental health exercises a massive thing as well. Exactly the endorphins and that helps and again that all links into this. When you're trying to put an event like this together because I know you're always wracking your brain for different things, this is a unique thing to be able to go past historical points before. So where I come about is we were engaged with a number of fans, we were talking to Dave Kelly, we were talking from the football, we were talking to John Blaine from the Shales Association and we were talking to Ken Rogers and we sat round the table in January and we thought what can we do, that's a little bit different because we looked at what Alan does within the city in terms of the run for Rhys, the 96th in the park as well which we support as a charity and I've also participated in the run for the 96th. So we just had a discussion and then we come up with this concept and then we approached Alan and said would he take this on logistically but as you say we have to keep trying to look at events but trying to fundraise on events and how to engage with fans but also trying to make it inclusive to everybody where we don't want to like discriminate against anybody so when you think about a 5k from run you're like we're going to do that people who aren't fit enough but hence why we've said it's a run job or work event we've got loads of fans, we've got ENSA for example we've got some disabled supporters that we engage with and we want everybody to feel part of this I think people instinctively if you say come and do a 5k if they're not run as they go, they don't even think about it they just say I can't do it and yet they can if you look at it, the biggest exponent of encouraging people to walk that certainly we do over that distance is the Santa dash we've been doing that since 2004 people don't go oh no I can't run, walk, job, 5k I'll put the Santa suit on and I'll go on maybe it's super pavush when you put the Santa suit on and that's what we want to achieve by doing this we want to see families coming out with the dogs and people with the kids in the prams and people in wheelchairs and whatever because the course that we've done and what we've identified will be accessible to people there's going to be plenty of pathways to push prams on walk dogs and push wheelchairs there is a hill start start on villain street and it's uphill it's relevant just to having football anybody else can take part in the city but it's a great opportunity to get involved logistically how difficult is a plan on something like this if you know what you're doing it's easy that's why we gave it to him the issue is always local community or road inconvenience so we've structured the course so we start on villain street just behind the Prince Rupert Tower and then it will go up villain street and then inside Everton Park we hit the road at Meir Lane and then we cross Meir Lane go down Meir Lane to the bottom of Blackfield Road north because we're going past where the toffee shop was where the tower is the Queen's Head Club which was the first venue the organising committee of St Domingo used we're going along Hayworth Street down Meir Lane to St Domingo Church which is no longer there so all these points will be highlighted on the course in any case so you'll see and you'll be able to read about the history of the club we'll then take on Oakfield Road past the Sanding Club was another venue that the organising committee of St Domingo used for the early years going past Amfield apparently we used to play there and then into Stanley Park where Ken Rogers, the former sports editor at the Liverpool Echo he'd identified where the first two pitches where Everton had played and one of them was in the car park area and the second one was where the priority road girls' school was the second one was there the third one was at Anfield and the fourth one is good at St Park so we'll be going past all the locations and then we'll finish in the park just in the gaze of the park end absolutely fantastic opportunity to visit obviously revisit those places that are so important to evidence history what are the criteria do you have to pay to get involved or there's a registration fee and the registration fee obviously covers the costs of all the logistics the traffic management and all the fees that will be in case t-shirts, medals, medals and then what we are asking fans we're not putting a limit on it we're not asking fans to raise as much as they can whether that be 10lb or 100lb 50lb, 20lb or 2lb all the money that is generated from a fundraiser point of view is going to be going into the people's place the people will know that they are leaving a legacy within the R4 area I don't think you know but the biggest donation we've had on the online entry system is 100lb so it's the biggest one we've had so when you enter the race through the online facility there is an option that you can just donate there or you can alternatively go to the just giving page that's farming, that's great obviously there's no set but it's brilliant because some people might be able to raise a 10lb there's no barriers there but we want to keep it inclusive to all they know that's a great option is this where you've got btr Liverpool.com if you go there you'll see it's on the homepage now you just click on the event button it'll take you straight to the entry process we'll put that link in the description so on the day there's going to be a number of confirm names just yet but there will be a number of players past and present that's brilliant it's international grade you had no Premier League games that weekend that's why we're hosting it on that day it's all great we don't have any games no distractions no disappointments or jubilation when you've completed it but you know what it's about everybody coming together and obviously participating in this we've never done a 5k run before or running it you walk it and you get your medal at the end it's an achievement and then at the end of it in the park it's going to be a talk to you but we don't anticipate the weather it's going to be quite good but we're going to be putting on a little bit of activity there for the ones afterwards it's going to be just a bit more than just a bit we're trying to make it as encouraging as possible for people to come down and enjoy the day learn about the history of the club a bit more than perhaps you already know and help raise funds towards these fantastic clubs a lot of people want to get involved in the community and do stuff for everything in the community and this is a great opportunity to do both and to do a little bit of exercise while raising funds and getting involved just take a lot of boxes and make a lot of sense certainly from a health and well-being perspective and as I said before we are looking at enrolling out of virtual elements of this we're already engaging with your likes of San Diego Blues and the New York Blues Michael Settabare and those in California in Cape Town the support has come across the globe so we're hoping that once we get this kind of set up that we can push that out and then people all around the world participating in their own 5k fun runs wherever they are and they're wearing our brands and getting our medals in fact I'd like to set as a target today that we get more than 200 more than 200 virtual Evertonians running across the globe because that's what we got in the 965 carry out 96, sorry we had 200 virtual runners for LFC in the event in May so I want to set as a target let's at least beat them 200 and want it we can beat them but imagine that on social media imagine that and then you know and post it if you're doing it just pop those shelves running in it we then create a virtual gallery so people can can say I'm from Kent up in Sydney wherever and then proudly show off that'd be fantastic and then we want to build on this next year and obviously we'll bring it forward so it's it takes place like August for example September earlier on when the weather's better and maybe include a 10k which takes us down hand down any more we don't know but Don't terrify anyone with 10k shelves before they've done the fact that was going to be my next question is this going to be something that's on-going not just a one-off there's no reason why it shouldn't be because the issue of mental health and the work that the charity does and health and wellbeing will still be there next year you know so if we can get this launched and I'm sure it's going to be a good event you know we'd like to improve and make it better next year as well brilliant just away from the event slightly obviously do loads you do incredible amounts for everyone in the community and what a fantastic charity some stuff in the last 12 months not for a stand and not for a mountain we'll be sleeping in gutters and against for you to sleep up and all that which is brilliant it's fantastic isn't it, it's great and all that but what are the things you've been coming up and what are ultimately I guess what do you want to do what have you this is not nothing to do with fundraising but to go back to the health and wellbeing obviously you know I've done a lot of marathon last year and I've participated in loads of marathons and climbed Kilimanjaro everything I've done from a fundraising point of view myself for the charity I've been on my own but I've kind of had the music and the headphones in the ears so what I've just done about 10 weeks ago is I've set up a charity choir the spirit choir now ok so not everybody can participate in physical activity to help them with the health however music is good for the soul so I seek some funding from one of our funders in South Africa the spirit of foundations give us some money for the next three years I've set up a choir called spirit choir and we rehearse every Wednesday in the blue base from half six to eight o'clock and it's just about bringing again bringing people together I think we've got 29 members in the choir and it's like the best hour and a half of the week in terms of just going and we just all come together and sing for one hour we've mastered two songs in 10 weeks and we've got two choir masters one of the bohemian rhapsody the one we've mastered I mean if you could come along the choir you want to see it and you want to see the impact on the choir it must be a really good feel I can't sing a note however I'm giving it a go because it's clean on me so the ambition or the objective is that over the three years we go out and perform so for example I'm like that at the club and I come and we sing on a map I was going to say if we're going to see you sing in the wrong way yeah you will and then you'll go that's a choir but we haven't really advertised it as much and you don't have to be able to sing because listen to that it's amazing to see it off six every Wednesday to see the people coming all excited and as soon as off six comes we're all in our line and we're all giving it the bifsters but yeah so that's one thing that we've got going on in everybody you're going to be ready for the centre dash on stage on the start if you want, yeah we will in the blue suit there you go a handshake she's committed now get your song sorted out this is the idea this is the idea with the choir right so we were singing like lean on me and we were singing the Beatles song however I wanted to engage with that singing that singing section in the glass of street because I'm wanting to turn some of our Everton anthems into the choir and give me two years and you'll have it sorted we'll have a charity single there you go I'm going to say it that would be great so you've got that you mentioned Kilimanjaro both, I mean I climbed some of the Kelly in 2011 for us in the community there was four of us from us and Bup Borglog and you've already, you did it last year two years ago I climbed Kilimanjaro I was the first one after that she beat me to the top but what did you do the five day route it was I did eight I did six up to that I was five Machambi so what was that like climbing that that's the ambition again so give me another year or two and I'm going to take a group of I just think people need to experience it and because you don't need any kind of climbing technical ability anybody can do it you just need determination it's mind over matter and reaching the summer from May was it's like when you walked out of Wembley in 2009 you see David Moise that she was of reaching somewhere that's my biggest ever moment because I wasn't watching Everton in the 80s so I got into the final on the semi final in 2009 and working on the ticker off at that time and walking out and looking around thinking wow I helped achieve this because you saw the ticket store fans but then seeing the manager up there at the time David Moise on that big board next to Sarah Alex Ferguson on the semi back feeling of accomplishment and then when you see the sign Kilimanjaro when you've been tracking up the six days that's the feeling that you got so if I can only encourage other Evertonians to come along and get that feeling for themselves can you just point out there's no hills in the if you know you mystery you've gone from a flat thing to climbing a mountain I can't help with that you know what for some people it would be like that if you're not used to exercising so don't be scared you're off the couch and doody I'll hold your hand or you will so anything else coming up that you want to talk about so you've got to come back in and we haven't got all day have we so you come back in and tell us cos obviously it's the sleep out that's happening this year sleep out yeah, try to calendar there's other initiatives that we've got in the pipeline that we haven't yet launched yet so some exciting stuff as well I think we're in the fan zone we're in the fan zone talking about it so anyone wants to ask any questions about it, come down we've got some sign up points as well in the fan zone listen you've heard what the guys have had to say it's easy get involved lot of you want to do things for everyone in the community it's amazing, it's brilliant to do something that goes directly back like I said, I've done some stuff we've seen some of the difference it makes the house by the ground which these guys were involved in there's just loads, you just walk around by every now and then you see the blue base and everything else that goes on Carina's just told you're about to some of the stuff and all get involved, there's no excuse raise some money whether it's a tenne or a thousand pound whatever you can raise it's amazing it will go, it's easy it's going to be proud right into me so I think we're aiming to put the space in the ground and then when you walk past it and see that happening and you've contributed to that make it real lot of people give to charity and it goes off and some makes it's way to the charity and some makes it's way somewhere else this all goes to the charity and you can see it in front of your own eyes so be a part of it put the link in the description for the online stuff the guys are at at the weekend in the fan zone or ask them any questions about it if you're in America or somewhere else, we've got fans in all over the place you watch this all of that, come and join us Malaysia, do it and get your pictures do it all it's all the information of that look out for that, big thanks to Alan thank you Carina for coming put the link in the description make sure you sign up, get involved and support Evan in the community thank you