Nigel Pascoe, right, with Rory Fallon of Plymouth Argyle and New Zealand. (0982668)

A TRIP to watch the World Cup in South Africa is about more than football for one islander.

Nigel Pascoe is flying out tomorrow and as well as watching two matches he will also do some charity work on his trip.

Mr Pascoe, who works at Skipton International, is the vice-president of Faith in Football, a Christian charity linked with Plymouth Argyle. He will be working on projects with charities in South Africa and his trip will include visits to Cape Town Prison and a township where a soccer academy has been set up.

‘Literacy levels are 20% and the overcrowding is unbelievable. The primary school we are going to caters for 400-odd children. The soccer academy was set up to keep them off the streets after school, to stop them getting involved in drugs and gangs and that sort of thing,’ he said.

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