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Dame Kelly speaks at the Labour Party Conference fringe event
28t Sept 2007
National School Sport Champion News
Dame Kelly speaks at the Labour Party Conference fringe event
28t Sept 2007
In a week when sport has been as high on the political agenda as it’s ever been, Wednesday night saw Dame Kelly taking part in arguably one of the most interesting debates in British Sport at the Labour Party Conference fringe event “Playground, Parks and Podium-The Sporting Legacy for 2012.”
Dame Kelly said; “I have never been to a party conference before so it was very interesting to be on a panel last night speaking at the Labour party conference fringe event in Bournemouth. I thought is was great having YST, Sport England and UK Sport all joining forces, as it’s now starting to feel like sport in this country will be at the forefront of everyone’s minds.”
The comments of the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown in his speech on education earlier in the day provided a welcome backdrop to the event: he highlighted the need for every child to access more sporting opportunities when he said; “We want to unlock all the potential – not just the three R’s – for every pupil, as we look ahead with pride to the Olympics, and as we aim, for the first time, to offer five hours a week sport and time for arts and music too”
With keynote speakers also including Gerry Sutcliffe, Minister for Sport, the debate was opened by the Minister who highlighted that Gordon Brown’s commitment in his first week of office to invest more in school sport showed that he, and the government, was committed to delivering sporting aspirations and opportunities. He went on to say that it was important to use the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games as an opportunity to increase participation in sport nationwide.
Mr Sutcliffe’ s opening comments were followed by presentations from the panel which featured Steve Grainger,CEO of the Youth Sport Trust, Jennie Price, CEO of Sport England and John Steele, CEO of UK Sport. Between them, the speakers mapped out the unique role in the sporting landscape that each organisation is playing in building the 2012 sporting legacy, which was so central to the success of London winning the 2012 Games in Singapore. The meeting was chaired by Derek Mapp of Sport England and also in attendance was Sue Campbell, Chair of the Youth Sport Trust and UK Sport.
The evening provided a fantastic opportunity for the Youth Sport Trust to raise the profile of the great work that is happening in school sport, and to highlight what more needs to be done in the coming decade. During his presentation, Steve Grainger said: “The last ten years have seen significant changes in the provision of PE and school sport, but more can be achieved over the next ten…. our aim by 2012 is for the UK to have the best physical education and school sport system in the world./font>
The panel, made up of many leading figures of sport in this country, gave attendees the chance to hear at first hand the opportunities and challenges that building a sporting legacy for 2012 will bring.
The event was the second of a series of fringe events being jointly hosted by the three organisations at each of the three party political conferences. The first of the three was the event in Brighton at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference last week.
Dame Kelly Spoke at the Conservative Party Conference last night 30th Sept and said that it was equally as good, a great turnout and hopefully gave the messages about the joined up work that the Youth Sprt Trust , Sport England and UK Sport are doing.