READING-based Select Car Leasing is the headline sponsor of a celebrity-packed charity golf day for the New Life charity, which is devoted to saving the lives of babies born too sick or too soon across the UK.
Founded by CEO Trevor Goodall (pictured above), New Life raises money to purchase equipment that’s donated to NHS hospitals and their Special Care Baby Units (SCBU).
On July 14th, New Life will hold a fund-raising golf event at the prestigious Bearwood Lakes Golf Club, located in Sindlesham, Berkshire.
Famous names including former footballer Jimmy Bullard, ex-England manager Glenn Hoddle and international cricket legend Darren Gough will take to the fairway.
As Principal Partner of Reading FC, Select Car Leasing’s involvement will see a team from the Royals taking part, including Reading manager Noel Hunt and players Joel Pereira, Lewis Wing and Andy Yiadom.
A team of keen golfers from Select Car Leasing will also join around 80 other participants, with the day culminating in a charity auction.
Mark Tongue, Co-Founder of CEO of Select, says the company is proud to sponsor a charity that has raised more than £2m down the years while helping the lives of more than 22,000 children since its inception.
He added: “Having worked with New Life charity for several years, and having supported its golf days in the past, we’re thrilled to take headline sponsorship of 2025’s big event.
“All money generated from the charity golf day will go directly to NHS hospitals and their Special Care Baby Units (SCBU) both here in Berkshire and across the UK.
“The importance of New Life and the work that Trevor and his team have undertaken cannot be understated, as he’s making a life-changing difference to children and their families.”
For Trevor, 62, the golf day marks a poignant moment in the charity’s history. Thirty years ago, in June 1995, Trevor’s twin sons, Joshua and Samuel, were born three months prematurely, each weighing just over 1lb, at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon. Despite their incredible fight, they both died after one week. New Life was created as a legacy in their memory.
Some of the equipment New Life regularly purchases for hospitals includes incubators, ventilators, lights, express pumps, and £35,000 critical care machines, which cools the temperature of newborn infants that have suffered a bleed on the brain while increasing their chances of survival without brain damage. Not every NHS hospital has one, it says.
