- Select takes headline sponsorship of major golf event
- Celeb-packed bash takes place at Bearwood Lakes course, Berks
- Star players include Glenn Hoddle, Darren Gough, Jimmy Bullard
- Raising funds for New Life - a charity devoted to saving the lives of babies born too sick or too soon
Select Car Leasing has been announced as the headline sponsor of a celebrity-packed charity golf day - and it's to raise money for a incredibly important cause.
The New Life charity is devoted to saving the lives of babies born too sick or too soon across the UK.
Founded by CEO Trevor Goodall, it raises money to purchase equipment that’s donated to NHS hospitals and their Special Care Baby Units (SCBU).
(Trevor Goodall, above)
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 involved in the prizegiving element of the day, including Reading manager Noel Hunt and players Joel Pereira, Lewis Wing and Andy Yiadom.
(Former Wimbledon goalkeeper Dave Beasant in action at 2024's event)
A team of keen golfers from Reading-based 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.
(Trevor donating equipment)
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.
“With Bearwood Lakes Golf Club located just a stone’s throw from Reading FC’s Bearwood Park Training Ground, there’s a real synergy for Select as it’s a location where we already have close connections.
“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.”
(Dr Sarah Bates, Consultant Paediatrician & Neonatologist, GWH Swindon, left, and Trevor Goodall, right)
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.
Trevor, a part-time dental technician from Newbury, Berks, says: “This is a special year for us as we mark 30 years since the charity’s founding.
“I can’t believe it has been 30 years, if I’m being honest, as I can remember that week in hospital like it was yesterday. It’s a week that will always stay in my mind - and I want it to stay in my mind because there were some happy moments in there, too, which I’ll always cherish.
“Joshua and Samuel have inspired a normal lad like myself to raise an incredible amount of money for other families who are going through what we went through.
“I just want to keep helping as many little babies as I possibly can.”
Trevor is also the father of two daughters, Hannah, 29, and Isabel, 25 (pictured below).
(Trevor pictured with daughters Hannah and Isabel and former wife Tanya)
And he adds: “The boys were born on June 19th. Isabel was born on July 19th and Hannah was born on August 19th. It’s a strange twist of fate but it means the number 19 is very special for us as a family - 19 is a good number.”
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. Sadly, not every NHS hospital has one.
Trevor adds: “When we speak with doctors on the wards, they tell us that the equipment we’ve funded is helping babies every single day of the week. We’re touching the lives of babies that we’ll probably never even hear about, and that makes us especially proud.”
In January 2025, the Great Western Hospital in Swindon opened a new Children’s Emergency Unit.
The facility was officially unveiled by Her Majesty the Queen Camilla - and it’s named in honour of New Life special care babies.
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