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Stoke City was last week
the first Premier League Club to launch it's involvement in the
Premier League 4 Sport initative.
Present at the launch
was Junior World bronze medallist Luke Taylor who took part in
a demonstration for young people from the local area, as well
as the media and players from Stoke City Football Club, including
Carl Dickinson.
Premier League 4 Sport
is a new and innovative Government funded project in partnership
with the Premier League to promote and develop opportunities for
young people to get involved in community based sport in four
Olympic disciplines, judo, volleyball, table tennis and badminton.
The initiative will
help the Government’s ambition to offer young people five hours
of sport a week, as part of its 2012 legacy plans. It also aims
to address the drop-off in sports participation when young people
leave secondary school and encourage participation in community
clubs.
Stoke City FC will be
leading on the delivery and promotion of a series of 16 new clubs
in the North Stafforshire area in the four sports, to create new
and exciting opportunities for young people to experience both
recreational and competitive sport.
The new clubs will also
encourage involvement from parents and family members, to create
a sustainable network of community based clubs that will support
the anticipated interest in a variety of Olympic sports in the
build up to the London games in 2012.
Stoke City FC’s Community
Development Manager, Adrian Hurst, said “We are excited and extremely
positive about Stoke City’s involvement in this project. This
area has an excellent infrastructure of community sport in place
and we aim to support and develop that infrastructure using the
Premier League 4 Sport programme.
Daniel Griffin, British
Judo’s Premier League manager, said "The launch with Stoke
City is the first official club launch within England and I am
delighted to say that the Premier League programme will be up
and running throughout the country soon".
"Stoke City along
with the other 19 Premier League clubs will play a pivotal role
in us attracting new players to our sport and potentially future
Olympic and Paralympics judoka".
He continued "The
Premier League programme will now continue to expand, until all
20 clubs are running successful projects within their areas".
Report by James Sills
Stoke
City Football Club, Premier League 4 Sport launch
Luke
Taylor gets to grips with Stoke City's Carl Dickinson
Notes to Editors
For further information:
Dan Griffin
British Judo’s Premier
League Manager
(t) 07817 995093
(e) danielgriffin@britishjudo.org.uk
Press Contact
James Sills
(t) 07967957873
(e) jamessills@britishjudo.org.uk
- The £3.835 million
for Premier League 4 Sports is being invested through the Department
for Culture, Media and Sport from the Premier League’s Good Causes
fund.
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