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GLL Sport Foundation - April 2018 Newsletter

10 Years of Supporting Today and Tomorrow's Athletes
More than 3,000 talented athletes from across the UK have benefitted from a £1,600,000 fund this year thanks to Charitable Social Enterprise GLL and the GLL Sport Foundation. 2018 marks a significant milestone for the Foundation with it being its tenth year of supporting today and tomorrows athletes. Collectively the Foundation has provided / supported:

With the 2018 Commonwealth Games a huge success not only for the Home Nations, but also GSF with supported athletes winning 20 medals (a record number) between the 60 supported athletes that competed on the Gold Coast.
The GSF now looks ahead to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games and for a lot of athletes these next few years are so key to that transition, the GSF awards provide these athletes and younger athletes with core support from financial awards, to sports science and training membership support.

Video Exclusive
To mark the tenth year milestone we have created a video to showcase the athlete journeys we follow and the impact it makes. Take a watch!!

25th YEAR EVENT

2018 is a significant milestone years for GLL as it marks 25 years of our organisation, we are proud of the organisations journey and the significant impact we are making to local communities as the UK's leading Chritable Social Enterprise.

To celebrate this milestone and the tenth year milestone for the GLL Sport Foundation a VIP event was held at the House of Lords on Wednesday 2nd May

LOCAL AWARD EVENTS

The GLL Sport Foundation is now delivering 25 athlete awards events across the UK enabling ut to meet and present awards to over 1,000 athletes, these events also provide a brilliant opportunity for athletes to meet fellow athletes and take away knowledge to develop their sports performance.

Events in May are -
* Cardiff
* Bath and North East Somerset
* Barnet
* West Oxfordshire
* Belfast
* Hillingdon
* Gosling
* Tower Hamlets
* Chiltern and South Bucks
* Cornwall

Events in June are
* Lambeth
* Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
* South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse
* Croydon
* Cambridge
* Swindon
* Waltham Forest
* Islington

COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDAL SUCCESSES

With the sun now shining on us its time to reflect and shout about the positive athlete successes that took place on sunny climbs down under at the recent Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
The GLL Sport Foundation supported 60 athletes that competed at the Games, these athlete were representing 6 countries.
Athletes that competed included 11 year old Anna Hursey from Wales, the youngest athlete competing at the Games and one of if not the youngest athlete ever to compete.

We are delighted to let you know that these athletes won 20 medals, this collectively places the GLL Sport Foundation (if we were a country) 13th on the medals table above singapore.

Athlete Case Studies