Started on 20:12 PM 23rd October 2010 by Brad Cox

Below is a letter written by a Steven Morton, Platinum Ambassador from the Stafford & Stone School Sports Partnership to his local MP about the recent decision to cut all School Sports Partnership funding. This cut in funding will possiby remove all support for the Young Ambassador programme.

Do you agree with Steven? What could you do to support him in his campaign if so?

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Jeremy Lefroy, MP - Constituency Office                                                                                 15 Pearl House - Anson Court                                                                                 Staffordshire Technology Park                                                                                  Beaconside                                                                                                             Stafford                                                                                                              Staffordshire                                                                                                                                ST18 0GB

FAO: Mr. Jeremy Lefroy

Re: Young People for Stafford and Stone

Dear Sir,

First and foremost, I wish to offer heartfelt congratulations in being elected as MP for the Stafford area. In your statement following your victory you thanked us - the people of Stafford - for “putting trust in you”… I do hope this trust can be shown over the coming months to the young people in all schools around Stafford and Stone. We are the people of the future! 

I write to you today as one voice, but as one voice representing thousands of young people in your constituency , moreover, echoing the thoughts and beliefs of over 6 million young people on a nationwide scale. I write to you today proud and honored; to be called a Young Sports Ambassador.   

Now I appreciate, spending of our great nation needed to be put in line, and I also appreciate that you will be receiving many letters from others of the same ilk to this. So what makes us so different? 

It is the last line of the first paragraph that ultimately puts this into context – “people of the future.” The young people are the future. These young people will be the ones tackling the big questions in the years and decades to come, in roles that range from; nurses to teachers, bankers to solicitors, police officers to the armed forces and from politicians to prime ministers. 

The opportunities that are offered to us by the School Sports Partnerships have made a lot of us who we are today. I personally, would not have even contemplated becoming a young leader. I had no confidence in my abilities and no chance to develop these skills. It was this great movement that has been set by the Youth Sport Trust, and operated to huge success by many more across the country, that has developed me – and millions more – into the people we are today. 

To deny this would be recklessness. 

In a time where the government wishes to reduce spending, how can it be wise to merely cast aside one of the major departments that is responsible for having a great influence on people’s physical activity, a factor that greatly reduces the risks of many diseases and therefore surely – costs on the public health sector?

£4.4 billion is spent on combating obesity, diabetes and coronary heart disease.  Can the government really not see that in order to solve this issue to some degree, they need to be proactive rather than reactive?      

A wise man once said; ‘If you get the small things right, the bigger things fall in to place.” 

The government that you represent in our area has made cuts that, to put bluntly, have damned the Olympic spirit and legacy for, not just this area but this country as a whole. The promise of changing the world for young people all over the globe, was not the promise of a previous government, but a promise of a nation - a proud and great nation… a promise that is about to be laid broken by your hands. It is not something that you can run away from and cast the blame at the feet of the previous governments. 

To conclude I will say this:

The Stafford and Stone School Sports Partnership will continue to try and get the small things right so that we can make a big change.

We will continue to fight for young people’s rights to a vast range of sporting opportunities within their schools.

We will continue our quiet revolution.

The question is – will you stand and fight for and with us?

I challenge you and invite you to join us in this quiet revolution. A quite revolution that is about to become more so much more than a revolution, it is about to become reality.

Will you join this reality and see, that young people really are the future?

Yours in Sport,                                                                                                             

Steven Morton                                                                                                            Platinum Young Ambassador                                                                                        Stafford and Stone School Sports Partnership  

Started on 20:12 PM 23rd October 2010 by Brad Cox

Below is a letter written by a Steven Morton, Platinum Ambassador from the Stafford & Stone School Sports Partnership to his local MP about the recent decision to cut all School Sports Partnership funding. This cut in funding will possiby remove all support for the Young Ambassador programme.

Do you agree with Steven? What could you do to support him in his campaign if so?

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Jeremy Lefroy, MP - Constituency Office                                                                                 15 Pearl House - Anson Court                                                                                 Staffordshire Technology Park                                                                                  Beaconside                                                                                                             Stafford                                                                                                              Staffordshire                                                                                                                                ST18 0GB

FAO: Mr. Jeremy Lefroy

Re: Young People for Stafford and Stone

Dear Sir,

First and foremost, I wish to offer heartfelt congratulations in being elected as MP for the Stafford area. In your statement following your victory you thanked us - the people of Stafford - for “putting trust in you”… I do hope this trust can be shown over the coming months to the young people in all schools around Stafford and Stone. We are the people of the future! 

I write to you today as one voice, but as one voice representing thousands of young people in your constituency , moreover, echoing the thoughts and beliefs of over 6 million young people on a nationwide scale. I write to you today proud and honored; to be called a Young Sports Ambassador.   

Now I appreciate, spending of our great nation needed to be put in line, and I also appreciate that you will be receiving many letters from others of the same ilk to this. So what makes us so different? 

It is the last line of the first paragraph that ultimately puts this into context – “people of the future.” The young people are the future. These young people will be the ones tackling the big questions in the years and decades to come, in roles that range from; nurses to teachers, bankers to solicitors, police officers to the armed forces and from politicians to prime ministers. 

The opportunities that are offered to us by the School Sports Partnerships have made a lot of us who we are today. I personally, would not have even contemplated becoming a young leader. I had no confidence in my abilities and no chance to develop these skills. It was this great movement that has been set by the Youth Sport Trust, and operated to huge success by many more across the country, that has developed me – and millions more – into the people we are today. 

To deny this would be recklessness. 

In a time where the government wishes to reduce spending, how can it be wise to merely cast aside one of the major departments that is responsible for having a great influence on people’s physical activity, a factor that greatly reduces the risks of many diseases and therefore surely – costs on the public health sector?

£4.4 billion is spent on combating obesity, diabetes and coronary heart disease.  Can the government really not see that in order to solve this issue to some degree, they need to be proactive rather than reactive?      

A wise man once said; ‘If you get the small things right, the bigger things fall in to place.” 

The government that you represent in our area has made cuts that, to put bluntly, have damned the Olympic spirit and legacy for, not just this area but this country as a whole. The promise of changing the world for young people all over the globe, was not the promise of a previous government, but a promise of a nation - a proud and great nation… a promise that is about to be laid broken by your hands. It is not something that you can run away from and cast the blame at the feet of the previous governments. 

To conclude I will say this:

The Stafford and Stone School Sports Partnership will continue to try and get the small things right so that we can make a big change.

We will continue to fight for young people’s rights to a vast range of sporting opportunities within their schools.

We will continue our quiet revolution.

The question is – will you stand and fight for and with us?

I challenge you and invite you to join us in this quiet revolution. A quite revolution that is about to become more so much more than a revolution, it is about to become reality.

Will you join this reality and see, that young people really are the future?

Yours in Sport,                                                                                                             

Steven Morton                                                                                                            Platinum Young Ambassador                                                                                        Stafford and Stone School Sports Partnership