Northern Premier League

IT’S 20,000 NOT OUT AS BARRY HITS THE TARGET

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
30 August 2020

By David Richardson

ALL-SMILES: Kevin Kilbane and his son Harry present the 20,000th item to Barry Lenton alongside chairman Paul Leary

MARINE community officer Barry Lenton has collected his 20,000th item of sports kit which will be donated to underprivileged children and adults in over 30 countries.
Lenton, a retired teacher and author of the club’s 125th anniversary book published last year, has been gathering unwanted football kits from schools, charities, church groups and families across Sefton in Merseyside for KitAid over the last nine years.
In 2012, he had donated 5,000 ...

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