Romford Town Conservatives

OLYMPICS/PARALYMPICS
3,532 Havering school pupils are to receive free tickets to attend the Olympics and Paralympics. The Olympic Torch will pass through Romford and Hornchurch during the day on Sunday 22nd July. It will travel along London Road to Romford Market before going to the green by the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch via South Street and Hornchurch Road. There will be entertainments in the Market and on the Green by the theatre to accompany the torch relay and residents are welcome to line the route to enjoy this event. There will be an exhibition on the history of sport in Havering at Havering Museum in the High Street this summer. It is hoped that one of the two Olympics/Paralympics children’s mascots will visit Romford town centre on Sunday 1st of July and there will be events associated with this to encourage children aged 3-9 to take part in sport. Pupils have been selected to be Olympics/Paralympics ambassadors in Havering Secondary Schools and have been working over the last couple of years to promote the values of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in their schools and their primary feeder schools. School pupils from Havering have benefited from two opportunities to use the Olympic White Water Rafting course in Lee Valley Regional Park for free. So far, 203 Havering voluntary sports club coaches and individuals have taken up grants from the Mayor of London’s Legacy Skills Fund to improve their skills. This is the highest take up in our part of London. 165 Havering young sports people aged 14-25 have completed Sportivate courses to encourage greater participation in sport. Sports have included diving, volleyball and tennis. Lord Coe visited Havering on 23rd March to meet young Havering sports people and those involved in club sport in the borough.