Glasgow’s Little Legends welcome 2014 games sporting star
3 Jun 2014 03:47 PM
Scottish Para Sports athlete Samantha Kinghorn
yesterday (TUES 3 JUNE) took time out of her busy 2014 Games training schedule
to celebrate with Glasgow pupils from the Little Legends Commonwealth Sports
project.
The
project, run by Club World Sports Limited is one of 265 across Scotland
yesterday (3 JUNE) sharing in National Lottery funding worth £967,245
from the Celebrate and 2014 Communities funds for a range of unique sports,
arts, heritage and community 2014 Games inspired activities.
Joining pupils of St Savior’s Primary School for
some sporting fun, 17 year old Wheelchair Racer, Samantha Kinghorn, helped the
Little Legends Commonwealth Sports project celebrate its £8,750 award.
She said: “My own racing career has really taken off with the support of
National Lottery funding and it’s fantastic to see how it’s also
helping young people to take part in sport, get fitter and healthier. Everyone
who plays The National Lottery should be proud of the difference the money is
making.”
Announcing yesterday’s £967,245 investment
Big Lottery Fund Scotland Director, Jackie Killeen, said: “I am delighted
that Para Sports athlete Samantha Kinghorn could join us to celebrate the
latest awards from the 2014 Communities and Celebrate funds. Samantha is a
wonderful role model to young people who either want to pursue sport as a
career or simply as a way of keeping fit and leading a healthy lifestyle. As
well as funding a number of sports projects, yesterday’s investment will
bring communities together to enjoy a range of events such as Queen’s
Baton relay races, street parties, arts exhibitions and heritage projects
highlighting local links to Commonwealth Countries. In doing so they will help
ensure that communities across Scotland benefit from the 2014
Games.”
The
Little Legends Commonwealth Sports project will use its award to provide
coaching in a range of sport and physical activities for 500 early years and
primary school aged children across Glasgow. The children will also learn about
Commonwealth Games sports, countries, cultures and athletes and will come
together to take part in a school sporting festival in September. To help
ensure a lasting legacy from the project, coaches will then run sports clubs in
local communities.
Scott Allison of Club World Sports Limited, said:
“We are delighted to receive this financial support from the Celebrate
fund which will enable us to provide new regular sporting activities for over
500 children across the southside of Glasgow. The Glasgow Commonwealth Games is
a fantastic event for our city and will hopefully inspire more people to get
active and take up sport. The support we are receiving from the
Celebrate fund allows us to create new opportunities for young people to take
part in sport in their own community. We will be working closely
with our partners from active schools in Glasgow to ensure local children not
only take part in fun sporting activities, but also learn more about the
Commonwealth Games, the athletes and the cultures that are coming together for
this fantastic event.'
Cabinet Secretary for Sport, Shona Robison, said:
“As the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow draws ever closer, we are
focusing on – among many things – securing a lasting legacy for the
people of Scotland.
“Part of that legacy is to encourage people, both children and adults, to
become more active and get more involved in sport across their local
communities. The National Lottery funding will go a long way to preserving the
Legacy everyone connected to the Games has worked so hard to achieve.”
Celebrate is a joint programme from all four Scottish Lottery Distributors: Big
Lottery Fund, Creative Scotland, Heritage Lottery Fund and sportscotland. It
supports one off arts, heritage, sports and community events to celebrate the
people, places and culture of the Commonwealth and of the Games
themselves.
2014 Communities awards Big Lottery Fund grants to
projects that introduce Scots of all ages to a wide range of physical
activities, volunteering opportunities and healthier
lifestyles.
Details of the wide range of 2014 legacy projects
supported by the Big Lottery Fund are available at http://bigblogscotland.org.uk/2014/02/24/our-2014-legacy/
A full list of projects in your
area to be awarded yesterday is available here
Big
Lottery Fund Press Office: 0141 242 1483 or 1451
Out of hours media contact: 07795 454924
Website: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Twitter: @BIGScotland #biglf
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BigLotteryFundScotland
Notes to editors
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Celebrate is a £4
million joint awards programme from the four Scottish Lottery distributors: Big
Lottery Fund, Creative Scotland Heritage Lottery Fund and
sportscotland
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Celebrate allows
communities across Scotland to apply for up to £10,000 to organise events
that celebrate the 2014 Commonwealth Games through arts, heritage, sports,
community and local celebrations or events that celebrate the people places and
culture of the commonwealth.
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2014 Communities, run by
the Big Lottery Fund, is a micro grants programme, offering local sports clubs,
voluntary and community organisations, community councils and schools grants of
£300 to £2,000 to support and stimulate grass roots involvement in
sport and physical activity.
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2014 Communities is
about building a legacy of well-being before and beyond the Commonwealth Games.
It aims to encourage more people to take part or volunteer in sport or physical
activity as well as encourage greater community cohesion in the run up to the
2014 Commonwealth Games.
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The Big Lottery Fund,
the largest distributor of National Lottery good cause funding, is responsible
for giving out 40% of the money raised for good causes by the National
Lottery.
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The Fund is committed to
bringing real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need
and has been rolling out grants to health, education, environment and
charitable causes across the UK since June 2004. The Fund was formally
established by Parliament on 1 December
2006.
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Since the National Lottery began in 1994, 28p from every
pound spent by the public has gone to good causes. As a result, over £30
billion has now been raised and more than 400,000 grants awarded across arts,
sport, heritage, charities, health, education and the
environment.