{"id":303262,"date":"2025-07-30T06:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303262\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:53:18","slug":"active-birmingham-children-hope-from-european-athletics-championship-organisers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303262\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Birmingham children hope from European Athletics Championship organisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Royston Hoggarth, chair of the event&#8217;s stakeholder board, said: &#8220;There are two things we want to achieve from hosting the championships. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One is to have an amazing event where athletes and spectators have great experience but also, more importantly, we want to leverage and pull together the whole of Birmingham and the communities in Birmingham to give them access to athletics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We just want kids to be active and this is a wonderful opportunity to bring kids together in this massive wonderful place called Birmingham.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The program of events will include daily miles, junior park runs and an activity track around Birmingham aimed at children. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis-Francis said he hoped the scheme would help &#8220;get kids active&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a major championship coming up next year and I think to inspire communities, not just the kids, to be a part of it, is very important for Birmingham,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not just to try and find the next top athlete, it&#8217;s to get kids outside and get them involved in sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royston Hoggarth, chair of the event&#8217;s stakeholder board, said: &#8220;There are two things we want to achieve from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-303262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114940870928228286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}