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Mud, sweat and tears

MUD, sweat and tears . . . These are the words that summarise the 21st anniversary of the North West’s Disability Awareness Day (DAD).

Due to the wettest ground conditions the team have ever encountered, mud is the first word that comes to mind when describing this year’s event, and there was plenty of it.

Sweat is the second word, as everything that could be carried, had to be carried as we attempted to keep vans, lorries and pallet trucks off the squelching ground.

And tears, when halfway through our first day on site we shut up the site huts and headed over to the nearby crematorium to attend the funeral of our friend and colleague, Dave Connor, who died only a couple of weeks before the event .

For 20 years, Dave had been committed to the development of Warrington Disability Partnership and was heavily involved in our work for the last decade. He championed disability sports locally and nationally and will be greatly missed. Dave would have been really proud of how his colleagues battled to save the day from being a total washout and turning it into one of the best ever DAD events with 20,000 visitors who weren’t put off by the weather and soft ground. There was certainly lots of pressure on the team this year, and there were times when we thought that this year’s event might be the final one, but once the mud had settled and the sun began to shine again, we were soon talking about next year . . .A big thanks to everyone who made the event so memorable.

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