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Welcome to the latest news
from around the country where so far this year, 50 Panathlon competitions have
taken place for thousands of young disabled people.
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 London
Due to the investment from the Mayors Sports Legacy Plan for London, there has been a huge expansion in the number of multi-sports competitions, with nearly 1,000 young disabled people taking part across 28 London Boroughs in 2010. Panathlon organised qualifying rounds in each County Sports Partnership area in January & February and then the qualifiers played off in 5 area Finals in March. Those winners who now go on to the All London Final are; Barking & Dagenham (East), Croydon (South), Harrow (West), Haringey (North) and Lambeth (Central). Congratulations to everyone taking part....More details if you click here  Pictured here is part of the successful Lambeth team with Commissioner for Sport in London, Kate Hoey MP and Paralympic Gold medallist and new world record holder, Liz Johnson. The Panathlon Football project in London goes from strength to strength,
with around 500 young disabled footballers benefiting this year from   coaching and competition and the new Powerchair project due to kick off shortly. More details here if you click here. |
 Kent
 The winners of each sport (18 separate teams) now compete for their regional area (East, West & Central) in the Kent Final on May 26th at the Malling School. To read a Young Leaders Blog on his Panathlon experience, click here and for more information on the 3 days of Kent action - please click here. |
 Essex
 competitions in April involving 8 school sport partnership areas. Day one at Braintree College saw Harlow and Southview (NW Essex) qualify for the Final. The second semi-final at Chelmsford resulted in Beacon Hill (Thurrock) and Oakview (W Essex) qualifying for the Final on July 1st. For more information on the Essex events please click here Lakeside shopping centre have once again supported Panathlon and provided extra coaching for both the Chelmsford and Thurrock Teams. Many  thanks to all the funders for supporting disabled young people in Essex.
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Plymouth  Over 100 disabled Panathletes took part in Plymouth on April 29th in the sports of tennis, rowing, boccia, football and table tennis.
The students were from seven schools across the city. The
students had a wide range of abilities, many wheelchair users, others with
Learning difficulties but, all working together throughout the day. This was, a collaboration between the two partnerships and the Sports Development Unit and Marjons College. Many thanks to all who co-ordinated Panathlon in Plymouth ! For a fuller report on Plymouth Panathlon, please click here...
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 Merseyside
Over 2 days in March, 187 disabled young people from all 6
Merseyside boroughs competed at the Greenbank Sports Academy in the primary and
secondary Panathlon competitions. St. Helens triumphed in the Primary Panathlon
and Knowsley won the secondary event. This included Part of the Successful Knowsley team
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education and 10 hearing impaired / deaf competitors and 2 students were talent
spotted to become members of Knowsley wheelchair racing club. Thanks to
Merseyside Sport for supporting Panathlon
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 Swindon joins in
New to the Panathlon family this year is Swindon, where
Zurich Community Trust's grant of £3,000 has kicked off the Challenge. So far
Panathlon has trained 34 young leaders, teachers and coaches and 4 schools are going to
compete in the first Swindon Panathlon on May 19th. Good luck to you all -a full report will appear in the next newsletter.
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  Hilton Foundation supporting Panathlon
Help us raise funds for the Essex Panathlon by running,
swimming, rowing or biking on June 6th at your local Hilton Hotel. Every mile you contribute will help us
and Hilton hotels aim of going "Around the World in a Day." Hilton Stansted have
kindly nominated Panathlon as their recipient for funds this year and therefore
we are encouraging everyone to get active on June 6th and add to the total "miles" ran/swum/biked etc. Every penny raised will help local disabled
Panathletes with more equipment and coaching funds. Thank you in advance!!
More details if you click here
or contact ashley@panathlon.com
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Finals
So far this academic year around 10,000 active hours of
training and competition has taken place in internal, local and regional
competitions by several thousand young disabled Panathletes. The City/ County
wide Finals coming up are -
| 26th May | Kent
Final | The Malling School | | 24th June | London Final | Westway
Sports Centre | | 1st July | Essex Final | Riverside Sports Centre, Chelmsford |
Please contact ashley@panathlon.com
if you wish to know more or attend.
 STOP PRESS
Sky Sports "Sportnation" will be filming the London Final on June 24th for transmission on Sky Sports later in
the summer.
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JPF Award
The Jack Petchey Foundation
has kindly supported the London and Essex Panathlon again this year and is
supporting our "Outstanding Achievement Award", which aims to reward acts of
individual exceptional performance, teamwork, fair play, leadership etc.
Nominations are open for the prestigious award from teams in London and Essex
and a reward of £500 coaching fund and a visit from a Paralympian to your
school for the winning entry. Make sure your entries reach us by Friday May 28th.
For further information click here
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2010 Virgin London Marathon
Congratulations to Yolanda Edwards, Hillingdon Panathlon team Manager, who very kindly ran 26.2miles for the Panathlon charity in 4 hours, 40 mins in the London Marathon. This despite being injured and having to walk the last few miles. Yolanda has so far raised £661 for us and you can reward her achievements further by contributing here
 Thanks also to Peter Ackred of Disability Sports Coaches Ltd who raised £307 for Panathlon by running the Hastings half marathon in March
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Charity of
the Year
In 2010, Panathlon aims to invest back in to the community;
£100,000 in sports coaching, £100,000 of disability sports equipment
and £100,000 cost of delivering 50 multi-sports competitions. Therefore
we need to raise over £300,000 this year to enable us to meet these
targets ! If you think you can help (even in the smallest way) then
please get in touch with ashley@panathlon.com or get your company or
organisation, to adopt us as your Charity of the Year. Please download our flyer here... |
 & Blog Keep up to date with the latest goings-on with Panathlon by
reading the blog and see recent updates, uploaded YouTube footage and
interviews with Paralympic Gold medallists including Danny Crates, the Panathlon Patron. Several competitors and young leaders have added their views
on Panathlon and more are always welcome !! Click here to read more |
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Schools raise funds for charity
London schools are helping us to reach our fundraising targets in various ways. St. Annes in Merton raised £400 on their charity day, LB Havering held a sponsored trampoline event raising £181, Southfields Sports College raised £177 in a charity dance night and Swiss Cottage School in Camden have donated £100. Thank you all for your contributions, every little bit helps in our target of raising £300,000. However much you raise locally, will get invested back directly in your local special schools.
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