Charity & Community News

Sabres Gain Major Victory off the Field

Published: May 10, 2012

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The Sheffield Sabres are most likely known for their intense training sessions and competitive performance ethic within the BUAFL. However, unknown to many, the players devote much of their efforts to off-field performance also; namely in the form of volunteering. Months of hard work culminated on Friday May 4th , where the Sabres’ volunteering force [...]


End of Movember

Published: December 5, 2011

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The start of advent sees the tragic loss of facial hair across the Sabre roster. Yes, sadly it is the end of another Movember. With some questionable moustaches on show, the Sheffield Sabres have so far managed to raise £751 for prostate cancer and testicular cancer initiatives. A hefty chunk of the donations came through [...]


Movember is Back!!

Published: November 1, 2011

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Today sees the start of an arduous and potentially embarrassing journey for the Sheffield Sabres, as they embark upon a mission to prove their manliness, and at the same time, raise as much money for charity as possible! That’s right, it’s Movember! For the duration of November, the players and coaches will be leaving their [...]


Volunteering at Hagg Hill

Published: October 12, 2011

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Several Sabres donated their Saturday afternoon to the community this Saturday, helping out at the Hagg Hill allotments. Despite the dreary weather, the players turned up for a hard day’s work, clearing space and building the ground work for new allotments to help marginalised people to learn new skills. After plenty of digging and hacking [...]


Sabres Volunteering

Published: October 4, 2011

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This Saturday the Sheffield Sabres will be going to Hagg Hill allotments to help out with a community volunteering project. Running from 10am to 3pm, depending on workload, this is an opportunity for the Sabres to help the community by regenerating old allotments. Anybody interested in helping out should visit the Facebook event, ask on [...]


MOVEMBER

Published: December 3, 2010

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A massive thankyou to all Sabres who got involved, helping raise a whopping £2,572 for the Prostate Cancer Charity! An especially big thankyou is due to Joe Longworth and Deepak Mahtani who managed to raise over £1000 between them! Take that cancer.


Sabres do Movember

Published: November 27, 2010

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Over the month of November, twenty or so of the Sabres have been taking part in Movember, that beautiful month in which you grow a moustache (or attempt to) for the Prostate Cancer Charity. So far the team has raised a whopping £1433! Now while the month has nearly gone, it’s not too late to donate, help us get to £1500! To donate simply visit Movember, search Sheffield Sabres [...]


Sabres can’t stop giving!

Published: November 22, 2010

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Four previously handsome Sabres sacrificed their glorious manes last night in a sponsored head-shaving in support of Children In Need. Chris Jackson (LB), Joe Leyland (DB), Matt Duffy (DB) and Nick Andrew (WR) all gave up their hair in humiliating circumstances and in the process raised over £150 for charity! Hat sales in Sheffield are [...]


A Pound Per Yard: Final Figure

Published: March 17, 2009

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The Sabres are pleased to announce that the 131 yards gained against Loughborough last week brings the final charity figure to £1548.


A Pound Per Yard: Update

Published: February 28, 2009

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The Sabres are pleased to announce that the 168 yards gained against Huddersfield last week and 208 against Hull yesterday brings the charity figure to £1083.


Bag Packing For Charity

Published: February 12, 2009

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The Sheffield Sabres will be bag packing 11 til 3 at Morrisons in Hillsborough this Saturday (14th) to raise money for both the Leeds & Sheffield Cystic Fibrosis units.


A Pound Per Yard: Update

Published: February 3, 2009

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The Sabres are pleased to announce that the 184 yards gained against Hallam last week brings the mid-season charity figure to £707.


A Pound Per Yard

Published: January 12, 2009

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The University of Sheffield Sabres American football team are pleased to announce a charity partnership with Encore Envelopes. For every yard that the Sabres gain on on offense, Encore Envelopes will give a pound to charity.


Sabres get their hands dirty for community centre

Published: October 30, 2008

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12 Sabres volunteers comprising of 9 players plus Head Coach Simon Dwyer and children did their part in renovating Angleton Community Centre. New this year the volunteering scheme was introduced with the idea of giving something back whilst improving the image of the Sabres and the student athlete.

University sport nationwide has been shown in a bad light recently and the Sabres hope their first project of the year can set the tone for the future and encourage more sports clubs to adopt to volunteering.