Oxfordshire fundraising organisation Est. September 2007 Founded by Andrew Baker MBE BCAv
​Changing, Transforming and Saving Lives across Oxfordshire | Thames Valley Charity of the Year 2019/20
​Patrons: Dr Winston Ellis & David Johnston OBE MP| hello@play2give.org.uk
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Lifetime Achievement Award for Andrew at the Against Breast Cancer Awards 2019

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Against Breast Cancer's Lifetime Achievement Award

Andy was the most nominated individual in the Against Breast Cancer Achievement Awards 2019, with the judges receiving over 20 nominations for Andy alone.

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He was honoured to be chosen firstly as a finalist and then announced as the winner of the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' in the 2019 awards ceremony held on the night of October 24th at The Hilton in Reading. Andy was up against strong competition with fellow contenders Professor Diana Eccles and Alison Porter, both with more years in service between them. However, it was Andy who triumphed with the judges and we were delighted that he took home the biggest gong of the night. 

The Lifetime Achievement Award is a well-deserved award for Andy, who has been fundraising since the age of 14. In over 17 years, Andy who began raising money at St Birinus School in Didcot before creating Play2Give, has gone on to raise over £175,000 for good causes in Oxfordshire, through all-year round events and through the value of gifts raised at Christmas.

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"Andrew from Oxfordshire has been fundraising for over 17 years raising over £178,000 which he has given back to good causes. He lives with a brain injury but despite this he is a prolific fundraiser particularly in Didcot where he lives. He has an extraordinary positive attitude through determination drive and perseverance since a very young age despite his own adversity. His strength and courage in having never given up on his dream shows his strong resilience and commitment.
Andy began raising money in 2003 as a year 10 schoolboy at St Birinus School in Didcot. He was instrumental in the school's fundraising efforts by being a positive role model, inspiring and coordinating the fundraising activities at the school to help build the Oxford Children's Hospital, and through Andy's determination, creativity and ingenuity of fundraising ideas brought the entire school community together. Andy began his mission to repay Oxford medics who saved his life twice followed by setting up his very own fundraising organisation, Play2Give, aged 19. He doesn't show any signs of retiring in raising funds anytime soon.

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From a dream to raise money to 'repay' Oxford medics and his first £1,000 raised with a non-uniform day in February 2003, has resulted in Andy now having raised and donated over £178k in over 17 years so far all of this whilst living with a significant disability. His condition affects him greatly daily including extreme fatigue and debilitating headaches.
It is Andy's pure self-drive, determination, motivation, grit and persistence to give back through his own adversity which lead to him creating his successful charity, Play2Give which he proudly founded in September 2007. Initially born from a football tournament for charity, since 2013 P2G has evolved, becoming a well-respected and much-loved fundraising organisation.

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All the shortlisted nominees for the ABC Achievement Awards 2019
​Oxfordshire fundraising organisation Established 2007 - Changing transforming and saving lives across Oxfordshire
Patrons: Dr Winston Ellis and David Johnston OBE MP
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Play2Give, The Lambourn, Wyndyke Furlong, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 1UJ
Email: play2give@hotmail.com | Telephone: 07939064308
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