LPF President David Bernstein made a CBE in The Queens New Year Honours List

David Bernstein’s services to the world of football have been recognized by her Majesty the Queen in her New Year’s honours list. LPF Chair, Joyce Cook OBE said: “We are all delighted for David and his family for this very well-deserved recognition of his years of service to football. It also gives us the chance to warmly thank him for his unwavering support and friendship for Level Playing Field and our works. It is such great news and a lovely start to 2014 for us all.”

Warmest congratulations to David from everyone at LPF. For the full story see here. 

Announcing the 2014 LPF Weeks of Action

The LPF Weeks of Action will soon be here, they take place from the 15th to the 30th March. It is not too early to let us know what your club or DSA are planning to do to celebrate the LPF Weeks of Action. We will publicise planned events via future e-newsletter and our website. Please contact us on 01244 893584 or info@levelplayingfield.org.uk to inform us of events or if you have any other questions around the LPF Weeks of Action. To remind you of how last year’s LPF Weeks of Action were celebrated please see here.

LPF Round Up

Round Up links you to updates from the LPF office. This month we report on updates to our projects including Working Together, Match Buddies and Weeks of Action and our Access Audits programme. For more information see here.

Disability Hate Crime Publications

A disability hate crime is when someone commits a crime that is motivated by hostility, or prejudice, because the victim is a disabled person, or is perceived as a disabled person then the crime will be a disability hate crime. LPF has noticed an increase in the number of disability hate crime incidents being reported at live sports events and on online fans forums. To find out how to report Disability Hate Crime please visit here.

Fans Comments:

Below are some fans comments we have so far received in 2014:
• Accrington Stanley
• Aston Villa
• Blackpool 
• Brentford
• Bury
• Colchester Utd
• Crawley Town
• Fulham
• Hartlepool Utd
• Leeds Utd 
• Northampton Town
• Notts County
• Stevenage
• West Ham Utd
• Wolverhampton Wanderers

To leave your own comment on a stadium you have visited go to our website www.levelplayingfield.org.uk and select the club/venues tab and click on the relevant club. If you require any assistance or would like some more information please contact us via info@levelplayingfield.org.uk or on 01244 893584.

News in Brief:

• Middlesbrough Taxi firm refuses to take disabled passengers 

• High streets are losing out on disabled shoppers, see Trailblazers report

• Grant Leadbitter and Ben Gibson pick up gongs at Middlesbrough Disabled Supporters' Association award ceremony  

• Rica is conducting a National survey - mobility scooter users, the survey can be found at www.rica.org.uk/scootersurvey the closing date for this survey is February 28th 2014.

• Football v Homophobia Month of Action kicks off on 1 February

Keep in touch

LPF takes your views very seriously and we can and will contact clubs and organisers to make sure that where there are problems, these can be resolved - where things have gone well, we'd also like to give the appropriate words of praise as well. Your views, more than any, are so important to us.

You can email us at info@levelplayingfield.org.uk telephone us on 01244 893 584, or write to us at the following address:
LPF, c/o CAFE, Regus House, Herons Way, Chester Business Park, Chester CH4 9QR.