sport news Conor Coady reveals he loves EVERY MINUTE he has with the England squad whether ... trends now Jamie Carragher, Conor Coady, Trent Alexander-Arnold and a host of football stars and celebrities joined forces to raise £292,000 at a charity gala in aid of young people, last night. Money-can’t-buy lots went under the hammer at the Football for Change Gala 2022, held in Manchester on Thursday, which was supported by Mail Online. In addition to the auction, the great and the good also made generous donations expected to take the total raised closer to £350,000, which will support youngsters in deprived areas, who are struggling to access education and employment. Jamie Carragher is chairman of a new charity Football for Change helping youngsters Despite being driving forces behind the event, Coady and Alexander-Arnold missed the bash, since they are away in Italy on England duty. But they addressed the star-studded audience through a video. ‘We want to help children who are may be underprivileged to get some support in their life,’ said Coady. ‘This is massive.’ Carragher, the chairman of Football for Change, had raided his contacts book to bring in the prizes and the guests. The top lot was a VIP trip to to the US, to meet David Beckham and his Inter Miami team. There was breakfast with Everton boss Frank Lampard, which sold for £6,000 and a backstage experience at BT Sport, with Steve McManaman, which went for £10,000. A VIP backstage pass to the Glastonbury festival to meet Noel Gallagher, who performed with his High-Flying Birds band on the night, fetched £25,000, and one of the Oasis legend’s signed guitars went for £30,000. Noel Gallagher's guitar was auctioned at the Football for Change Gala for £30,000 ‘It is a wonderful event,’ McManaman, the former Liverpool, Real Madrid and England winger, and now a BT Sport pundit, told Sportsmail. ‘It is a fantastic. It is so busy. It is really nice, even though the title is Football for Change, the amount of people who have turned up from different activities it is really good to see.’ The charity, which is supported by Conor Coady and Trent Alexander-Arnold, among many others, is already funding a life-changing project for 40 young people, who travelled to the US for a sport and education programme, a training scheme for homeless youngsters, and a new education hub for young people in Bootle. ‘It’s a fantastic event,’ ex-England and Manchester United midfielder and coach, Michael Carrick, told Sportsmail, last night. ‘I am passionate about helping young people, who are not as fortunate as others and this is amazing. Coleen Rooney and TV presenter Vernon Kay attended the Football for Change gala ‘You have to try to support events like this it is so important we do that because times are getting tough for people, it is important that we try and stick together and help people as much as we can.’ Across the country, 711,000 young people aged 16 to 24 currently find themselves out of education and employment, with well-founded fears that the cost-of-living crisis and an economic downturn is about to make life even harder. Among 16-17-year-olds, the most recent figure for so-called NEETs nationwide is 64,720, of whom 1,950 live in the Liverpool City Region. Two hundred of those youngsters have been identified in Sefton, the area where Carragher grew up All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility