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EFDS Break the count Me In 5000 Mark

Friday 9th February 2007

The English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) are campaigning to get 10,000 signatures by the end of March 2007 to support their “Count Me In” award. To date they have achieved 5800. The Award was launched by Sports Minister Richard Caborn in summer 2006, and aims to support disabled children, young people and adults to have equal access to sport and physical activity. In conjunction with this EFDS have developed a comprehensive set of online tools for organisations who are working to improve access to physical activity.

So far they have got signatures from:

Sports Minister Richard Caborn
Minister for Disabled People Anne McGuire
Director Office of Disability Issues Bruce Calderwood.
The Secretary of State for Education Alan Johnson
Chair of the Disability Rights Commission Bert Massie
Chair UK Sport Sue Campbell
Chief Executive Youth Sport Trust Steve Grainger

And Big sporting names:

Sir Trevor Brooking
Darren Campbell
Linford Christie
Duncan Goodhew
Ade Adepitan
Dame Kelly Holmes
Danny Mills
Ian Rose
Uriah Rennie
Tessa Sanderson
Iwan Thomas
Marc Woods

Various national businesses have also signed up including Nationwide, npower and the BBC.

Make a difference and sign up to “Count Me In”, by clicking on the link http://www.efds.net/ngb/ngb_sub.php and register your vote for more resources to go into disability sport.

Read more about the award at www.efds.co.uk

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