CLUBBERS GIVE LOCAL CHARITY A HELPING HAND:
Liquid & Envy donates £4,500 to help disadvantaged and disabled children.
Liquid & Envy, Leicester’s leading nightclub has donated £4,500 via its ECHO charity arm to Clarendon Sports and Community Association, a registered Charity serving the needs of disadvantaged and disabled children. The charity has facilities at Clarendon Park in Hinckley and New College in Leicester where the resident Sport Gymnastics Centres lay on activities to inspire healthy living and an active lifestyle. Their New College Centre hosted the gymnastics event for the Special Olympics in 2009 and the annual National Festival of Gymnastics and Movement for People with Disabilities in 2010 and again later this year. Both Centres are currently working with Sport Unlimited through the Youth Sports Partnership Trust to bring disaffected young people back into organised sport.
Tony Ford (Clarendon Charity trustee) said ‘We have years of experience in working with children and young people and by using our skills and expertise we can deliver exciting activities and host events that target those who might be left on the outside ’
The Charity started as an offshoot of Hinckley Gymnastics Club to channel funds to worthwhile groups who would otherwise be left out. The Charity has worked over many years to deliver medical help and shelter to Street Children across Eastern Europe and sent an articulated lorry full of Sport Aid to Romanian schools. Its work across Leicestershire has taken sport to schools and clubs. It has piloted schemes for children who have special needs and brought together groups of young people who would otherwise find it difficult to access safe facilities.
The Gymnastics Centres have had roots in both Leicester and Hinckley since 1972, recently expanding their operation into the super centre at New College which holds some of the most prestigious competitions in the gymnastics circuit. In this time, gymnastics club Manager Trevor Low has produced an incredible number of gymnasts who compete and train on the international circuit, with commonwealth games medallists and British Team members at World and European Championships. The club has 3 gymnasts in the top 12 training for the London Olympics. The Club has 400 young people in regular activity with over 2000 individual attendances each week. In 2010 it staged 37 major events with over 20,000 individual spectator attendances.
Chris Beasley, General Manager at Liquid & Envy said ‘It really is a pleasure being able to donate to such a worthy cause. Having looked at the history of the club and its Charity and their achievements in their 30 years, we see a long standing history of excellence which they are happy to take to those in need. We are very proud to be able to support this worthy cause.’