Cheshire businessman Kevin Dobson will next month join footballing legends, including ex-Liverpool player Bob Bolder and former Blackburn Rovers star Peter Nicholson, to compete in the Children Today PFA Challenge Cup in Malaysia.
The director of services with Ellesmere Port-based Arena Instrumentation will fly out to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur to take part in a unique and gruelling fund-raising event for charity Children Today in association with the Professional Footballers Association.
After joining one of the teams, each captained by a former professional footballer, the 55 years old company director will then face a series of challenging tasks starting with the ascent of the Menora LK Tower, one of the world’s tallest buildings in Kuala Lumpur.
Then, after travelling up to the Cameron Highlands, a vast area of jungle, waterfalls and mountains, Kevin and his fellow fund raisers will take part in an exhilarating zip slide descent, trek up to the region’s highest point at 6,600 feet above sea level and then head for the Sungai Selangor river for a spell of white water rafting.
“It is going to be a challenging experience,” said Kevin, speaking from his home in Tattenhall. “I try to keep fit by playing a little golf and walking.”
However, this will not be the modest businessman’s first experience of facing challenges in the great outdoors.
Three years ago he successfully took on the Inca Trail in Peru and scaled the ancient Inca site of Machu Picchu at 2,430 metres above sea level.
In fact when Kevin is not occupied at Arena, a company which specialises in providing on-going servicing and support for plant and equipment in all industry sectors including pharmaceutical, health care, food and dairy, he can be found throwing himself into a variety of Action Man activities.
This month will see him taking part in a golf weekend, before going onto participate in the Bala Challenge – a gruelling trek around Bala Lake in North Wales. Later in the month he will be in the Lake District on a training exercise for the Malaysia trip.
And when he returns from Malaysia, he is booked for a golf tournament before taking part in a 50 miles sponsored walk around Bolton in July.
He said: “I enjoy being active and I am really looking forward to Malyasia because it is for such a good cause.
“But to be honest I didn’t actually volunteer for this trip – my MD David Dawe volunteered me when he met up with a representative of the charity.”
Elizabeth Oaks, regional fundraiser for Children Today said: “ Without the help and support of people such as David, who pledged to help Children Today by volunteering Kevin to participate in the PFA Malaysia Challenge, we at the Trust could not help purchase these items of often life enhancing equipment to children with disability locally.”
“I am so grateful to them both for their continued support and look forward to participating with Kevin in June. I am hoping that we will raise in excess of £60,000 to be spent helping give these children the opportunity to fulfil their potential and lead a life of greater independence.”
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