Birtley club's race for cash.Byline: BY BILL MCGUIRK THE Norwich Union Norwich Union is an insurance company in the UK. It is the biggest life-insurer in the UK, and has a strong position in motor insurance. It is part of the Aviva group, itself created by a merger of Norwich Union and CGU plc in 2000. Community Sports Fund is up and running for another year, giving the public the chance to make a difference to sport in their community. Anyone can vote for a local sporting initiative which could help them win funding of up to pounds 50,000 and all you have to do is register your vote on www.joinourteam.com. As the team behind UK Athletics UK Athletics is the governing body for the sport of athletics in the United Kingdom. UK Athletics was founded in 1999 as a successor to the British Athletics Federation, which had collapsed for financial reasons. , Norwich Union is committed to supporting athletics from playground to podium and has created the Community Sports Fund to make it easier for local sporting initiatives to reach their full potential and for the next generation to get active. Up to pounds 500.000 has been made available by Norwich Union to be distributed between over 200 grassroots sporting initiatives nationwide. Voting will take place on a dedicated website - www.joinourteam.com - where details of all the local visions can be found. One of the organisations in the region leading the early voting Early voting, is the process which voters can cast their vote on a single or series of days prior to an election. Early voting can take place remotely, such as by mail, or in person, usually in designated early voting polling stations. is Birtley Athletics Club which has operated as a voluntary organisation for over 20 years. In October, 2007 the Birtley club formed a community partnership with Lord Lawson of Beamish school and was soon recognised as an award-winning partnership by England Athletics. Birtley AC have been offered eight hectares of land adjacent to the school by Gateshead Council to develop a fully-functional athletics facility aimed at providing children with access to great facilities, equipment and coaching. The Birtley athletics club is one of 14 specially selected initiatives involved in the scheme across the region and one of over 200 nationwide. The other Norwich Union Community Sports Fund Initiatives in the North East are: North Shields Coordinates: North Shields (or locally just Shields) is a town on the north bank of the River Tyne, in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, in North East England. It is located eight miles (13 km) east of Newcastle upon Tyne. Hockey Club; Gateshead Girls' Active' Tees Valley The Tees Valley is an area the North East of England. It can be described as "greater Teesside" and consists of the four unitary authorities created by the breakup of the County of Cleveland in 1996: Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland, and Stockton-On-Tees along with 'Experience Extreme'; West Tyne Girls' Games; Ashington 'Aim High Climbers'; Sharks Wheelchair Basketball Club; Sedgefield Girls Active Project; Blakeston 'Get Up And Go Club'; Derwentside Athletics Scheme; Haydon Bridge Girls Active; Alnwick Cricket Club and Chester-le-Street Girls Active. In its first year, the Norwich Union CSF Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Analysis Definition Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis is a laboratory test to examine a sample of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. was a huge success. In all, 164 of the 216 local sports initiatives involved secured the bronze award of pounds 1,000. Twelve of those were crowned regional winners, securing the silver award of pounds 12,500 while Active Archie, of Sheffield, won pounds 50,000 as a gold award winner. Tanya Veingard, head of sponsorship at Norwich Union, said: "This is a unique opportunity for the public to cast their vote and secure funding for their favourite local sporting initiative. "The aim of the scheme is to make it easy for local communities to take control and help Norwich Union to develop sporting involvement and opportunity across the North East and the UK as a whole. "I hope the people in the North East will vote in their thousands and work with us in making sport the real winner in 2008." CAPTION(S): SPORT TYPES: Sarren Campbell opens the batting for the North Union Community Sports Fund for 2008 |
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