Leah Williamson designs Blue Peter sport badge to ‘inspire next generation’
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ootballer Leah Williamson has designed a sport badge for youngsters’s TV present Blue Peter as she desires the “next generation to feel inspired”.
The England captain, who has grow to be a youngsters’s creator since her crew gained a historic victory final yr on the Uefa Women’s Euro championship, has included varied sports activities tools in her design.
The new badge contains a soccer, rugby ball, cricket ball, tennis ball and a badminton shuttlecock together with Blue Peter’s ship-shaped emblem within the centre.
Williamson, 26, stated: “It’s such an honour to design the new Blue Peter Sport badge.
“I want the next generation to feel inspired and have the self belief to try any sport they want to. I hope they feel the same joy I do when taking part in sport.”
The Blue Peter sport badge, awarded to youngsters aged 5 to fifteen for getting energetic and attempting a sport that they’ve by no means tried earlier than, might be unveiled on the BBC present on Friday at 5pm.
In February, it was introduced that the Arsenal defender has signed a three-book cope with Macmillan Children’s Book with the primary You Have the Power: Find Your Strength And Believe You Can, a information for younger ladies, launched in March.
Her first non-fiction e book, The Wonder Team And The Forgotten Footballers, which can come out subsequent month, has been impressed by ladies difficult the Football Association (FA) ban.
Female footballers weren’t allowed to play on FA member grounds between 1921 and 1971.
Wheelchair racer and Blue Peter presenter Abby Cook, who has skilled alongside Paralympians as a part of the athletics membership Forth Valley Flyers, spoke about how exercise may also help younger folks.
She stated: “I love the new badge. Sport is so important; it is so good for mental health as well as getting you out and active.
“So, don’t let anything stop you, get involved and give a new activity a go. I can’t wait to see all your pictures and read about what sports you’ve been doing to earn your badges.”
A earlier sports activities badge was designed by British-Japanese skilled skateboarder and teenager Sky Brown, who competed within the 2020 Olympics.
Last month, Blue Peter celebrated 60 years of the present’s badge which was first launched by tv producer Biddy Baxter in 1963.
Children also can earn Blue, Silver, Green, Sport, Purple, Orange, Gold and Music badges.