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Natural Balance Foods sponsorship arrives!

Today (27th April 2009) the first delivery of two boxes of nutrition snack bars arrived for William Maybanks donated by Natural Balance Foods. Natural Balance Foods have promised to sponsor Will with two boxes of their Trek and Nakd bars each month to help with his need for quick fuel during his gruelling training programme.

This is all part of the big plan from William's nutritionist Lucy-Ann Prideaux - Simply Nutrition.  Lucy-Ann has been working with Greg Combs (co-Founder) and Jamie Combs (Managing Director & co-Founder) to support William and we are very grateful to Lucy-Ann and all at Natural Food Balance for their on-going support.

To read the whole story check out Lucy-Ann's blogpost Nakd bars and Trek bars fuel Olympic Hopeful.

Olympic table tennis dreams threatened over funding worries

One of the challenges facing table tennis champ Will Maybanks away from the table is securing funding - and he's far from alone. Its not just individuals who struggle to find a way to fund their sporting ambitions though... this short video report for BBC Look North reports how "the Olympic prospect of two South Yorkshire talents could be hurt if a Sheffield training centre fails to win funding." Given that this is not just any training centre - it's actually the English Institute of Sport (EIS), you have to wonder whether Britiain is truly committed to encouraging more young people to take up sport for pleasure and/or competitively.

Watch the report here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7842598.stm