DINNO BORN & BRED
DINNINGTON, SOUTH YORKSHIRE
He’s been six different men. Every one of them came from the same pit village.
Coalman. Lifeguard. Bodyguard. Debt collector. Builder. Boxing trainer. Steve Greaves has written three books about how he got from one to the next and every penny they make goes to Kids @ Heart.
Coalman
Lifeguard
Bodyguard
Renovator
Debt Collector
Boxing trainer
Fundraiser
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Where it starts
Anston Park Junior. Dinnington Comp. Then the world got hold of him.
Steve was born and raised in Dinnington when the pit was still the reason the village existed. He left school and went straight into work, and he kept going into work of one kind or another for the next fifty years hauling coal, pulling people out of swimming pools, standing at doors, knocking on them, and eventually gutting and rebuilding houses.
Somewhere in the middle of all that, in 1984, a local boy needed an electric wheelchair and nobody was coming to pay for it. Steve decided he would. That decision turned into a forty-year fundraising habit and a charity called Kids @ Heart.
The three books are his own account of all of it, in his own words, with nothing smoothed over. People who know him say that is exactly what they sound like.
"Hard as nails with a heart of gold"
- Matt Gleadall
Three ways to help
Buy a book. Give to the kids. Get him in a room.
The books
All three autobiographies, signed on request. Every penny of profit goes to Kids @ Heart.
KIDS @ HEART
Forty-two years of raising money for children with additional needs in Dinnington and the villages around it.
STEVE ON STAGE
An hour of stories nobody else could tell, for clubs, businesses and community groups.