Posh fans encouraged to sign for new club this October as UK’s biggest grassroots football fundraiser Prostate United returns!
Thousands of football fans and club staff have pledged to help save men’s lives this October by signing for a new club – Prostate United and members of the Posh behind the scenes team are taking part.
Over 2,000 fundraisers have joined the UK’s biggest grassroots football fundraiser and will be running, walking or cycling every day next month to raise life-saving funds for Prostate Cancer UK.
Prostate United is an award-winning yearly fundraising challenge which, since it began in 2018, has seen more than 300 staff from 60 professional and Non-League football clubs raise over £1 million for the leading men’s health charity.
To join them, visit prostateunited.prostatecanceruk.org. Join the Peterborough United team and be part of the challenge!
The challenge, which was named the Best Corporate Social Responsibility Scheme at this year's Football Business Awards, was founded by Stephen Gilpin and Ross Burbeary, who were working together at Rotherham United in 2018.
Gilpin, now at Wolverhampton Wanderers, was inspired to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK after losing his grandad, Norman, to the disease in 2010. He and Burbeary invited fellow football club staff to join them in running every day that October, and in the years that followed the challenge grew to having over 300 staff raising money towards life-saving prostate cancer research.
Fans were then encouraged to get involved and in 2024, the challenge smashed through the £1 million fundraising barrier.
"Prostate United has become much bigger than just a charity challenge; it’s become a community. We’re trying to bring football - from grassroots level up to the Premier League - together, with one aim of raising as much money as we can for the amazing Prostate Cancer UK,” said Gilpin.
“The money that we’re raising is going to improve prostate cancer research and the support and help that men living with the disease are receiving.”
Everyone who signs for Prostate United this year has the opportunity to own the new one-of-a-kind Prostate United football shirt - if they can raise £500.
Seren Evans, Head of Events and Community Fundraising at Prostate Cancer UK said: “From the Premier League and EFL down to grassroots level, football has been so influential in raising the profile of prostate cancer. Across the football industry, from the terraces to the touchlines, in board rooms and living rooms across the UK, as well as across pavements and parks, Prostate Cancer UK are uniting against the deadliest opponent of all.
“Whether signing-up as part of a team or going solo, every activity completed, and every pound raised by our fantastic Prostate United fundraisers helps fund lifesaving research into better tests and treatments to save men’s lives.”
Join your club and help save men’s lives this October. Sign up for Prostate United 2025 at prostateunited.prostatecanceruk.org.