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Carl "Men-Aces" Eaton
07/28/2023
Carl "Men-Aces" Eaton
Carl Eaton is the founder & manager of Skelmersdale Men-Aces, a football team for young men with a range of disabilities. Carl's story is a truly inspirational one. Born with Spina Bifida and later becoming a right leg amputee, he refused to allow his disability to define him as a human being. Instead he decided to help others to achieve their own personal dreams. When he started the Men-Aces 14-years ago, they used jumpers for goalposts and begged borrowed and improvised until they eventaully found their feet. With the help of his wife Mim, they went out into the local community to raise funds. With hard work and perseverance they quickly became a fully established club within the town. Not satisfied with that great achievement alone, Carl went on to raise more money through a range of madcap ideas, including abseiling down the Spinnaker Tower on Portsmouth's historic waterfront, to the "Great Escape," where dressed as a pair of convicts, him and his able bodied friend Peter set off in two wheelchairs without a penny piece between them, with the aim of blagging their way from Skelmersdale to Lands' End and if that wasn't bad enough, they had to do the same thing coming back. As a result of all those escapades, Carl has managed to raise over £100,000 for good causes. That's not gone unnoticed either, because along the way he's been rewarded with the "Freedom of the Borough of West Lancashire' and received the "Queens Award" at Buckingham Palace! What a man!
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