Sky Sports activities is supporting the Darts of Future charity problem for Prostate Most cancers UK on the World Darts Championship this 12 months.
Paddy Energy have created a chance to win an £180,000 money prize dwell on stage forward of the World Darts Championship remaining
Within the first-of-its-kind Darts of Future sporting problem, one individual – chosen at random – could have a shot at glory if they will rating 180 factors from a most of 9 darts on Saturday, January 3.
Individuals can enter by way of the Darts of Future Simply Giving web page – set-up to assist increase very important funds for Prostate Most cancers UK – with one individual to be drawn out of the hat to get a shot on the large prize.
If they will rating 180 from 9 darts in entrance of a packed out crowd simply minutes earlier than one of the best gamers on the planet take to the stage, they’re going to be beginning the brand new 12 months with an £180,000 prize – solely £20,000 lower than the dropping semi-finalists on the event will pocket themselves.
After elevating greater than £2m for Prostate Most cancers UK of their first two years of sponsorship of the World Darts Championship, this initiative for the following event guarantees to boost but extra much-needed funds for ground-breaking analysis like Prostate Most cancers UK’s TRANSFORM trial – a undertaking which might cleared the path to a prostate most cancers screening programme and save 1000’s of lives yearly.
Steve Smith, Govt Director of Content material, Sky Sports activities, mentioned: “Sky’s platforms proved crucial in getting 180,000 men to check their risk of prostate cancer during last year’s World Darts Championship. We look forward to widening the reach, even more men checking their risk and hopefully changing their lives.”
Together with the Darts of Future problem, Paddy Energy are additionally renewing their pledge to donate £1000 to Prostate Most cancers UK for each 180 hit on the event, which in 2023/24 reached £914,000 (rounded as much as £1m) and £907,000 finally 12 months’s event.
It is all a part of Paddy Energy’s The Even Greater 180 marketing campaign for 2025/26, the place following the massive success of The Massive 180 and The Greater 180 campaigns of their first two years of sponsorship of the event, the Skilled Darts Company and Sky Sports activities are once more becoming a member of Prostate Most cancers UK as companions for the hugely-successful fundraising initiative.
Additionally returning this 12 months is the nine-dart bonus the place for each excellent leg on the event a money prize of £180,000 will probably be break up evenly between the participant who achieved it, Prostate Most cancers UK and one fan within the crowd at Ally Pally.
The initiative can also be calling on 180,000 males to test their threat of prostate most cancers through the event, after greater than 1 / 4 of one million males took the chance checker through the first two years of the marketing campaign.
Laura Kerby, Chief Govt of Prostate Most cancers UK, mentioned: “We’re thrilled to be back on the oche with Paddy Power again this festive period as The Even Bigger 180 returns.
“The final two years have modified the sport for males, with greater than £2m raised amid some high-octane darting drama – one 180 at a time. This marketing campaign has had an unimaginable influence in making males throughout the UK extra conscious of their threat of prostate most cancers, and what they will select to do about it. That is essential, as this illness typically has no signs in its earlier, extra treatable levels. Prostate most cancers is the most typical most cancers in males, and 1 in 8 of our dads, brothers, grandads and mates will get it. Sadly, too many males are being identified at a later stage – when it is a lot more durable to deal with.
“And yet, Prostate cancer remains the UK’s last major cancer without a screening programme. We’re striving to build a world where no man dies of prostate cancer. And the future of screening is already underway. Thanks to the incredible efforts of the PDC players, backed by Paddy Power, the funds raised will go towards supporting game-changing research like our TRANSFORM trial. That will help us find the missing pieces we need to build a safe and effective screening programme for all men, to catch prostate cancer early and save thousands of lives.”
Who will win the Paddy Energy World Darts Championship? Watch each match completely dwell from December 11 to January 3 on Sky Sports activities’ devoted darts channel (Sky channel 407 from December 10). Stream darts and extra prime sport with NOW.
