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Tony Blair calls new Community Ambassadors

Community Ambassador, Ian Davison (above) with his team of young footballers

Eight outstanding community sports volunteers have agreed to become new Community Ambassadors for the Tony Blair Sports Foundation. To compliment the work done with our Sports Ambassadors which include Steve Cram, James Cracknell and Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, the role of Community Ambassadors will be to work with the Foundation at a local level within their sports in order to recruit new volunteers and to identify need in their local communities where sports could benefit from having more coaches or officials trained by the Foundation.

The Community Ambassadors are all people who have worked with the Foundation over the past 12 months and are very familiar with how the Foundation can make a difference. All have become qualified coaches through the Foundation and through volunteering have successfully developed projects on the ground that has helped their sports and their local communities.

At an event held in the Foundations office on Friday 13 November, the Community Ambassadors discussed how they could use their experience and expertise to help develop the Foundations work.

During the meeting, Tony Blair called the office and spoke to the Community Ambassadors to thank them and wish them well. Having spoken to each them Tony said,

"This is a really important next step in the development of the Foundations work. Over the last two years we have worked with sports clubs and volunteers across the region and we now have some fantastic examples of projects that work at community level and really make a difference to young people. The Community Ambassadors can help us roll these out further. We are incredibly grateful for their commitment."