Welcome to the Wells Sports Foundation
The Wells Sports Foundation is a new sporting charity created and entirely funded by successful entrepreneur, Barrie Wells, to provide financial and motivational support to sustainable grassroots sports projects.
We provide grants to qualifying sports clubs to help fund legacy projects that will increase participation in sport both now and in the future.
We also have a team of world class athletes who visit schools and sports clubs throughout the country so that young people can engage with and be inspired by some of Britains's most accomplished and promising athletes. These athletes are our Ambassadors and they are all funded personally by Barrie to help take them a step closer to winning medals in 2012 and beyond.
We are endorsed by UK Athletics, British Swimming, British Triathlon and Pentathlon GB.
Featured Ambassador: Freyja Prentice
Freyja Prentice is a modern pentathlete and an Ambassador for the Wells Sports Foundation.
Still a junior, Freyja has wasted no time in making an impact on the tough world of modern pentathlon, having already made a string of top 10 world series finishes in the senior ranks. She is showing even more promise in her transition from junior to senior by recently becoming the World Junior silver individual medallist and claiming 2 gold medals as part of Team GB at the World Junior Championship in Hungary.
Born in Inverurie, Freyja is now based in Bath where she is a member of the City of Bath club.
The modern pentathlon requires endurance, speed, accuracy, determination, spirit, patience, control and a lot more and Freyja is excited at the prospect of working with young people to pass on the importance of having a variety of skills and being motivated by different activities. She is also keen to run pentathlon events in schools to raise the awareness of multi event sports.
Our Patron: Jessica Ennis
World Heptathlon Champion, Jessica Ennis, is the Wells Sports Foundation's Patron.
We are thrilled to have Jessica as our Patron because, not only is she a World Champion and one of Britian's most promising athletes for London 2012, she is also an outstanding role model to young people. Jessica will be supporting us in promoting the projects our Ambassadors become involved in and also the grants the Foundation will provide to sports clubs.
Jessica comments: "Having witnessed Barrie's commitment to helping up and coming sportspeople, I felt adding my support by becoming the Patron of the Wells Sports Foundation was a good thing to do. I'm really excited about helping to support sports at a grassroots level, reaching out to young people to promote sport as a lifelong activity."
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RT @WorldDuathlon: Getting ready to go later! http://yfrog.com/5f9ixgj
12:36 Fri 03 September 2010Good luck 2 Freyja Prentice 2mo..a place in the final of the World cup after only weeks before grabbing a silver&2 golds at the Jnr Worlds!
11:39 Fri 03 September 2010RT @PACESportsMgmt: RT @London2012: Usain Bolt visits the Olympic Park and tells us about his hopes and expectations for the @London2012 ...
16:19 Thu 02 September 2010Grassroots Sport
The Wells Sports Foundation supports projects that develop sport at grassroots level. We have created two unique and exciting schemes designed to motivate young people to participate in sport at all levels, contributing to a lasting sporting legacy for future generations.
We can provide support in two ways:
By providing grants to qualifying sports clubs to help fund legacy projects that will increase participation in sport by young people both now and in the future.
We also have a team of world class athletes who will visit schools, sports clubs and other voluntary organisations throughout the country so that young people can engage with and be inspired by some of Britain's most accomplished and promising athletes. These athletes are our Ambassadors and they are all funded personally by Barrie to help them take a step closer to winning medals in 2012 and beyond.