Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney donate £5,000 to Wrexham Maelor Hospital youngsters’s ward

Hollywood stars and Wrexham AFC co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have donated £5,000 to the town hospital’s youngsters’s ward.

Members of Wrexham Police FC and FC United of Wrexham will likely be going face to face on Saturday, 1 July, in a charity soccer match.

Funds raised will go to assist Wrexham Maelor Hospital’s youngsters’s ward which takes care of younger folks from start to 18 years previous.

Reynolds and McElhenney grew to become homeowners of Wrexham AFC in 2021 and just lately oversaw the membership’s return to the English Football League for the primary time in 15 years.

They celebrated with a bus parade round Wrexham earlier than the gamers joined Rob McElhenney and his wife on a go to to Las Vegas.

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Patients from throughout Wrexham and Flintshire use the youngsters’s ward’s providers, in addition to from elements of Shropshire, Powys and Gwynedd.

Wrexham Police FC thanked the duo for his or her “generous” donation forward of the match.

“It’ll make a positive difference to the lives of many children from across the area, diolch (thank you),” they added.

FC United of Wrexham, an beginner soccer and futsal membership, mentioned: “They [McElhenney and Reynolds] have done it again.”

“The Wrexham Maelor Children’s Ward is so close to our hearts as they are amazing. We can’t wait to play the match now,” they added.

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The preliminary fundraising goal was £5,000 however the donation from the Wrexham AFC co-owners meant it was rapidly reached and the groups have now elevated the goal to £10,000.

The recreation will happen at Bronwen’s Green, Wrexham, on 1 July with kick-off at 10.30am.