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Meet the Medallist Varsity Roadshow
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Aim
Celebrate 30 years of Varsity and your great memories by funding a new social impact campus project hosted by GB Medallists.
YOUR OWN VARSITY MEMORIES CAN CREATE SOMETHING SPECIAL
26th November 1996 saw the first of the newly created regional Varsity matches, which after their first year started to evolve into the Varsity Days that are now the cornerstone of student sporting and events life.
The man who kickstarted this, see, www.legacy300.com/blog, is seeking your support to create a new campus event, aiming to make the same social impact that Varsity has over the last three decades.
The man who kickstarted this all, needs your support to create a new awesome campus experience.
This is a way of saying thank you for the great memories and support your old university in creating a new unique experience.
The way in which your contribution would help develop a Varsity Meet The Medallist roadshow, and any excess help add to the £683K already generated by GB Athlete Experiences
2027 will test the roadshow with those Universities who in 1996 and 1997 started the Varsity craze. In 2028 we attempt a UK wide tour.
Each Roadshow will come in three parts:
1) MEET THE MEDALLISTS
PART TWO: THE MEDALLIST MAZE
PART THREE: BEAT THE MEDALLIST: The Charity Challenges
We already have started the conversation to scope out venues and willing campuses.
How this links the Varsity Generations to create something special in 2027/28.
What your £5 contributions will generate.
Each event budget will be met by your donations, company sponsorship and ticket prices on the day. The below event estimates are already in many cases being reduced by participating Universities. 100% of any event surpluses is directed at the behest of the host Student Unions, whether for student sport or for local good causes.
And mentioning sponsors, your company would be most welcome to get involved in these or more general public events. Please email [email protected] for details.
Excess donations will generate unique Athlete experiences that student sports clubs can auction off for their chosen good causes. This picks up the purpose mantle from a previous GB Athlete purpose project that raised £683K for good causes.
If the Roadshow fails to attract funding, 100% of your contributions will fund experience days for student sport clubs
LAST SUMMER 2025: SUCH AUCTIONS GENERATED THE FOLLOWING:
Good Causes ALWAYS receive MORE THAN 100% of your donation.
This Summer it was 306% every £1 donation made £3.06.
Last Autumn it was 257% every £1 donation made £2.57.
Summer 2025 Crowdfunder (more examples available on request).
Your Donated Places: £1230 (Includes private donations of places)
Generated for Charity: £3774 (All kept by the Good Cause)
Charities received 306% of your Crowdfunded £1
This is how your £5+ donations will help crowdfund places on Athlete Days that generate more money for good causes and have done since 2012.
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WIN PRIZES AND REWARDS FOR YOUR DONATIONS:
- £150 LEISURE GIFT CARD for use in your chosen venue anywhere in the UK,
- WIN SIGNED MEMORABILIA FROM GB SPORTS STARS
- Donation matching discounts on cool events, experiences and stash.
ALL those donors up to that point entered into a prize draw to win a place on an Athlete day of their choosing or signed memorabilia. Lifetime entries.
See UPDATES and REWARDS section for details.
(Prize Draw Terms and Conditions are at the foot of this page.)
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About the Project : About David
I am now finding that I am apparently too old for another job, and recent times have been tough health wise. Now fully recovered, I still have the energy to create new concepts (you should see the Office Olympics idea) and am really excited to be able to work with the amazing Sports Sabbaticals in the pioneer Varsity establishments.
Driving the Varsity initiative in 1996 is still one of my proudest achievements and even now students, who's parents hadn't even met when Varsity was created, give such a warm thanks.
I hope that your memories are warm enough to help lend your support to the project and to myself. This is an exciting concept and one that will transcend into the main public arena.
For any further queries about the project:
Contact [email protected] to start the conversation.
PRIZE DRAW GUIDLEINES
1) Entry is for persons aged 18 and over and we accept entries from all over the world. Entry is precluded for any staff members of Corporate Slam,
2. Entry is automatic and for the lifetime of the project. You will be allocated a virtual ticket number. Postal entries are valid for the draw their entry was received in. You can resubmit after every £.5K draw made in March and from April 2026 every £1500 raised thereafter.
a. Free entry is by post stating name, age and email contact details
GB Athlete Prize Draw
111 Gloucester Road
Bristol BS7 8AT
b. Entry via the Crowdfunder is one entry for every £5 donated, there is no limit on entries.
3. The promotor is David Cotton T/A Corporate Slam
4. The competition will run until the end of this Crowdfunder.
5. Prizes are as of 14/11/ 2026
6. Using random computer generator, Wheel Picker it selects a winner every £1K raised through this page and any related Beat the Medallist / Beat the Pro challenges, generating free places for good causes to auction. These will be monitored by an independent witness and will be transmitted live or recorded via Instagram or Facebook. Entrants will be notified
7. We will contact the selected winner and they can choose which prize they would like and sort out prize delivery accordingly. That ticket number is retired, if you have other entries these will not be affected. Postal entries will have to be resubmitted for inclusion in the next draw.
8. All private data will be kept securely as detailed with our GDPR policy.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 30th November 2026 at 11:59pm