CHARITY HELPS YOUNGSTERS ACHIEVE THEIR SPORTING DREAMS AND FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THEIR OLYMPIC HEROS
The success of Team GB in the Rio Olympics has been absolutely amazing. We’ve all marvelled at the success of the likes of Andy Murray, Mo Farah, Justin Rose, Max Whitlock, Jason Kenny, Laura Trott, Becky James, Charlotte Dujardin and Helen Glover, to name but a few.
But let’s remember that all this hard work starts at grassroots level, training at local clubs. It’s not until the athletes are already successful that they receive Lottery Funding.
Until then often it’s just financ
CHARITY HELPS YOUNGSTERS ACHIEVE THEIR SPORTING DREAMS AND FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THEIR OLYMPIC HEROS
The success of Team GB in the Rio Olympics has been absolutely amazing. We’ve all marvelled at the success of the likes of Andy Murray, Mo Farah, Justin Rose, Max Whitlock, Jason Kenny, Laura Trott, Becky James, Charlotte Dujardin and Helen Glover, to name but a few.
But let’s remember that all this hard work starts at grassroots level, training at local clubs. It’s not until the athletes are already successful that they receive Lottery Funding.
Until then often it’s just financial support from the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, but what happens if that bank is more Barings than Barclays? Not every family can afford to make the huge financial commitments needed to reach the top of any chosen sporting profession.
That’s where charities such as Northamptonshire-based The Travers Foundation step in. The Travers Foundation helps 13 to 30 year olds living in Northamptonshire, Rutland or Leicestershire improve their skills in sports, and also the creative and the performing arts.
Athletes supported by The Travers Foundation have already achieved amazing success:
Oakham’s Chris Southwell, 22, won a gold medal as part of Team GB’s Basketball squad at the Special Olympics in LA in August 2015;
Golfer Ryan Evans, 29, was the first ever recipient of funding from the charity when it was established in 2012. He’s just competed in his first ever Open at Royal Troon;
Lucy Hatton, 21, the European silver medallist hurdler from Kettering, is working back to full fitness, aiming for the World Championships next year and the Tokyo Olympics in 2020;
Corby’s Joe Tyler, 17, has just won his first ever British Tour tennis event in Nottingham and hopes to compete at Wimbledon;
Isaac Akers, aged 17 from Market Harborough, recently competed in the European Youth Championships in Tbilisi in the 3000m running event, proudly wearing his first ever GB vest;
Three teams of Ball4All CIC basketball players from Leicestershire, all aged under 18, competed in the Delfin Basketball Tournament in Finland at the end of July and proudly came home with silver medals.
Terry Forsey, Chairman of The Travers Foundation, said:
“We are immensely proud of all the youngsters we support at The Travers Foundation. With all their hard work, and helped by our financial assistance, they have achieved some phenomenal results. We at the Travers Foundation firmly believe that funding shouldn’t be a barrier to youngsters achieving success, and we hope to help them reach their full potential in their chosen field.”
For further information on the work of the Travers Foundation please visit www.travers-foundation.org.uk