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Double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes visited us on the 4th December 08 to support the Norwich Union GirlsActive programme or what is known as WISPA (Women in Sport & Physical Activity)in the City, which encourages more teenage girls to participate in PE and sport.
Dame Kelly visited Crown Hills Community College to see how the Sports College and the Crown Hills School Sport Partnership are delivering Norwich Union GirlsActive/WISPA. She joined around 100 girls as they took part in a range of activities involving Trampolining, Boccia and Street Dance. |
Such has been the success of the girls and teachers on Norwich Union GirlsActive that the Sports College and School Sport Partnership have become one of seven Norwich Union GirlsActive regional centres in England and are now aiming to broaden the scheme to reach a further 3,000 girls from across Leicestershire and beyond.
Dame Kelly said: “I’m here to support all the really great work the girls and teachers at Crown Hills Community College and the Crown Hills School Sport Partnership have done in making Norwich Union GirlsActive such a success. Becoming a Norwich Union GirlsActive regional centre shows they are leading the way in engaging more teenage girls in sport, which is a subject I feel passionately about.”
Norwich Union GirlsActive was launched in 2006 after research conducted by Norwich Union and the Youth Sport Trust found that 40% of girls drop out of all sports activity by the time they are 18. The scheme is designed to empower teenage girls to enjoy more sporting activity on their own terms, making positive choices and being given a voice. |
