Football Shirt Friday

Join the squad

Get ready to wear, share, and donate!

Wear your favourite football shirt at home, to work or school, or just out and about to show your support.

Every penny you raise supports life-saving bowel cancer research through the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK.

Sign up here and we'll send you an email with everything you need to know about this year's campaign. You'll also get your own Football Shirt Friday online giving page, to make paying in donations as easy as possible.

How to take part

Step: 1

Sign up to wear

Sign up to get your giving page. Wear your football shirt and show support.

Step: 2

Share

Share the signs: Share our posts to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms for bowel cancer.

Step: 3

Donate

Donate to help fund vital bowel cancer research.

The difference you make

There are around 46,600 new bowel cancer cases in the UK every year.*

Only through research will we find better ways to prevent, detect, diagnose and treat bowel cancer. Your support makes a difference to people like Marcus.

Meet Marcus

I'd had some IBS-like symptoms for some time but didn't think much of it. But then I began to see some blood in my poo and lost quite a lot of weight too. I knew something wasn't right.

- Marcus

Marcus was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2007 after initially suspecting he had IBS. He had surgery followed by chemotherapy. One year later, the doctors found more growths during a check-up which required more surgery. He's now on medication and has to be careful with what he eats, but is otherwise doing well.

Your money supports our life-saving work

£50

Could buy the nutrients that cells need to grow in the lab, allowing scientists to find out more about cancer than ever before.

£100

Could buy chemicals called restriction enzymes, which act like molecular scissors to cut long strands of DNA, allowing our scientists to find out more about the genes that can cause cancer.

£500

Could buy a gel electrophoresis machine, which can be used to measure the length of pieces of DNA, so scientists can find out more about our genome.

About the Bobby Moore Fund

The Bobby Moore Fund raises vital funds for bowel cancer research and increases awareness of the disease.

Bobby Moore OBE was a footballer who captained West Ham and led the England men’s senior team to their first and only World Cup victory in 1966. He was 51 when he died of bowel cancer in 1993. Shortly after, his widow Stephanie Moore OBE set up a fund to raise money for bowel cancer research and increase public awareness of the disease – The Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK.

Find out more about the Bobby Moore Fund

Find a pre-loved football shirt

Football shirts for charity

Have a browse of the vintage shirts our partner, Football Shirts for Charity, has to offer. 

Last year we raised £72,000 for life saving bowel cancer research. This year, we want to score even bigger.

Get in touch

If you have any questions about Football Shirt Friday, please email us. 

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* Data is for the 3-year average between 2018, 2019, and 2021.