PARALYMPIC golden girl Hannah Cockroft is aiming to inspire a generation.
And Colne Valley MP Jason McCartney met the Calderdale athlete in the House of Commons as she launched a manifesto for charity Whizz-Kidz.
The Generation Inspired? manifesto is based on a late 2012 survey the charity conducted of its young ambassadors and their parents. It asks them about their hopes for a Paralympic legacy and their ideas to improve opportunities for young disabled people.
A copy of the report and a petition to affect its recommendations were handed to No. 10 Downing Street.
Jason McCartney met with double gold medallist Hannah, who received her first sports wheelchair from Whizz-Kidz in 2007.
The Conservative MP said: “It was fantastic to meet Hannah and the Whizz-Kidz Ambassadors and hear about the charity’s valuable work providing mobility equipment and opportunities for young disabled people.
“They do fantastic work locally in providing disabled children and young people with wheelchairs and with life skills through their work placements programme and wheelchair skills training.
“It’s so important that the views of young disabled people shape plans for the Paralympic legacy and I am delighted to back Whizz-Kidz’s Generation Inspired manifesto.”
Hannah said: “The day I received my wheelchair from Whizz-Kidz changed my life.
“My hope for the legacy of the Paralympics is that more young disabled people will not just be inspired, but have the opportunities to go for gold and succeed in whatever they want to do.”
Whizz-Kidz has provided three disabled children from Colne Valley with wheelchairs.
They also run a kids club in Bradford where the charity’s young ambassadors regularly meet to play games, make friends and take part in life skills workshops.
Visit www.whizz-kidz.org.uk to help support the charity or for more details.
