Ready Teddy Go!
Darts U10 Yellows player Teddy Lane is running the London Mini Marathon to raise money to help install more bleed control kits in the area.
When Teddy’s father Matt Lane was just 12, he witnessed his own father’s stabbing outside their family home.
Steve Lane was 35 and tragically died, meaning Teddy didn’t meet his grandad.
In 2023, Matt started fundraising to source and install his own bleed control kits in memory of Steve. He has fundraised many kits, usually using his work as a boxing inspector for various fighting organisations to auction off fighters’ gloves. More recently, he ran the 2025 London Marathon with Teddy running the TCS London Mini Marathon, raising over £3k between them.
Since installing these in the local area such as schools, football clubs and shopping centres, they have played roles in saving many people’s lives.
Dartford FC, Hayden FC, Millwall FC, Bluewater Shopping Centre, Old Bexley C of E Primary and Darrick Wood senior school are just a handful of the places where these can now be found. If you call 999 because a patient has a critical bleed and the ambulance services can’t be with you as quickly as you need, they will advise you of the closest location to get access to one of these bleed control kits.
In 2025, Matt was recognised by various news outlets and won the BBC Kent 2025 Good Neighbour award for his work.
This year, Teddy is running the TCS London 2.6k Mini Marathon on Saturday, 25th April to raise more funds to install further kits in the local area to potentially save more people’s lives.
Teddy and his family have been invited to the Dartford match on Saturday against Hashtag and will be introduced on the pitch.
We hope you will support this amazing fundraiser by following the link here