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Alex Richardson
Alex Richardson was born and raised in the tough housing estate of Easterhouse in the east end of Glasgow in 1960 . His early years like most youngsters of the area was embroiled i...view moreAlex Richardson was born and raised in the tough housing estate of Easterhouse in the east end of Glasgow in 1960 . His early years like most youngsters of the area was embroiled in the gang culture and territorial disputes of the estate. He escaped the culture through the sport of weightlifting winning Scottish and British titles and founding the local weightlifting club from a coal cellar. From those humble beginnings in 1986 he has evolved the local club in to the modern day Gladiator childrens charity.The charity has won many awards such as the Queens award and the Glasgow buisness awards. Alex is now very much a major Ambassador for the local area and Glasgow. The charity is not dependant on donations and is fully self funded through delivering activites in play and sport. Gladigator is the charities mascot that engages with the children across all the charities services. The Gladiator charity delivers to locations throughout Glasgow and the Clyde valley and had over 250,000 attendances last year and growing. It has been a long term ambition of the charity to build its own indoor play area to generate regular long term income allowing the charity to sustaine its many free childrens services. It is hoped that the proceeds of the book can help raise much needed funds for the play area as well as increase awarness of the charities work, Alex commented. I had tremendous enjoyment reserching all the local areas history and when you have run a childrens charity as long as i have i had no shortage of ideas for combining the fiction with history.We had a lot of fun filming the video for the book and writing the song to go with it. However having created Gladigator many years ago i am realy excited that the book introduces his family for the first time that being Gladesgator and Agi & Tator the Agitators.view less