Football Needs Campaign

EDM number 833 in 2010-12, proposed by Alan Keen on 14/10/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Sports.

That this House welcomes the Football Association's Football Needs campaign and its target to recruit 50,000 newly-qualified coaches by the end of 2011 and 8,000 new referees by 2012; and calls on everyone from mothers and fathers to ex-players and armchair football fans and their families throughout England to use their passion and interest for the game to become coaches and referees and to play their role in developing the next generation of male and female English footballers.

This motion has been signed by a total of 35 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.