A GROUP of friends planning to visit all 92 English Football League grounds in the space of a week will be visiting Newport later this month.

The team, who will also stop off at Wembley and the Millennium Stadium, are hoping to raise more than £20,000 for Cancer Research UK and Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research.

The team, who come from Skewen, near Neath, will be visiting Newport on the first day of their journey on Saturday, July 25.

Their 2,450mile road trip, which they have dubbed the ‘Tour 94’, is a self-funded tour with all profit raised going towards research into better treatments and cures for cancer and leukaemia.

They plan to leave Swansea’s Liberty Stadium at 8am Saturday, July 25, and return back there on Saturday, August 1.

They will cover more than 2400 miles and drive for more than 80 hours. They will average 300 miles and 12 grounds every single day.

Just stopping at each ground for a 15-minute photo shoot alone puts 23 hours onto the journey.

The challenge has been organised by friends Jeremy Dummer and Matthew Warlow.

Mr Warlow, aged 39, came up with the idea of the visiting all 92 grounds of the 94 clubs in the Football League.

He said he was inspired to raise money for charity after his father died of lung cancer in 2006 aged just 52.

“Whilst he was diagnosed 11 months earlier, unfortunately, there was no cure available.

“Watching a strong, healthy person deteriorate so rapidly is heartbreaking and I would hate to see any family go through what mine went through in that time.

“I have wanted to do something for quite a while now but due to work and family commitments it seemed that I never had the time.

“I want us to raise as much money as we possibly can, not only raise awareness of these horrible diseases but to help them fund lifesaving research into better treatments and cures for them. I cannot think of two more worthwhile causes. One day we will beat cancer.”

Friends Steve Lloyd, Brian Lewis, Peter Harvey and Darren Topper will also be taking part in the challenge.

They can be sponsored at justgiving.com/teams/tour94 or by texting TORA94 and the amount to 70070 for cancer research and TORB94 and the amount to 70070 for leukaemia and lymphoma research.