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LONDON 2012 INSPIRED PROJECT
SHORTLISTED FOR AWARD
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Suffolk County Council is celebrating
after being shortlisted in the Tackling Health Inequalities category of the
prestigious Community Partnership Awards.
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The short-listing recognises the work of
Suffolk County Council and a range of partner organisations in developing
the London 2012 inspired Healthy Ambitions Suffolk Challenge. The
aim of the challenge is to motivate children to fit one hour’s sport and
physical activity into their everyday lives and eat five portions of
fruit and vegetables a day. It demonstrates how easily and simply
they can achieve the challenge by doing lots of different things such as
organised sport, walking, cycling, gardening, dancing or simply playing
in the park.
To date, over 6,000 children have
recorded 85,000 hours of sport and physical activity as a consequence of
the Suffolk Challenge.
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Councillor Rosemary Clarke, Suffolk County
Council’s Portfolio Holder for Sport, Culture, Diversity, Health and Wellbeing
said, “We are really pleased to be shortlisted for this award, as it not
only recognises our own hard work, but also the tremendous efforts of all
the schoolchildren who have taken up the Challenge so far. The
real success of this initiative is the difference it makes to the lives of
the children who take part and they should feel very proud of their
individual achievements.”
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Delegates from Suffolk County Council
and NHS Suffolk, including Chief Executive Andrea Hill will make a
presentation to a board of ‘industry experts’ in London on the 11 December 2009. The winner will be announced on 4 February
2010 at an awards
ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
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