POSTED: February 2nd 2011
NewsUpdate
New Westway centre helps London climb towards 2012 legacy target
KEIR RADNEDGE / Sports Features Communications
LONDON, Feb 02: London Mayor Boris Johnson is helping to boost the chances of some of Britain’s brightest sporting hopes by funding a unique charity-run climbing centre in west London.
Westway Climbing Centre, in White City, is the only combined climbing and bouldering centre in the country. It currently trains half the national junior British climbing team and has produced Britain’s most successful ever climber at European level, Kitty Wallace.
The centre is one of the first sports projects in the capital to benefit from the Mayor's fund to transform community sports facilities and to encourage more Londoners to get active.
Westway was awarded £42,000 to replace and make fully accessible one of the bouldering walls.
Kate Hoey, the Mayor’s Commissioner for Sport, opened the expanded climbing centre on its eight-acre site beneath the Westway flyover. It is run by local charity and social enterprise Westway Development Trust.
The expansion of the centre will provide high-class facilities for competition climbers as well as helping to deliver a grass roots sporting legacy from the 2012 Games.
Johnson said: ‘We are now in the final stages of the build up to the 2012 Games, when the eyes of the world will be on our city. By working with local organisations, I want to encourage as many people as possible to get off their sofas and get active to achieve a true legacy from the Games.
"This centre offers a taste of mountaineering in the heart of West London and I am sure it will allow many Londoners to reach new heights.’
Hoey added: "This is just the latest example of us delivering on our commitment to a grass-roots sporting legacy from London 2012."
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