Our Charity

Our Charity

Our Values

Super Slide to a Super life!

Our values drive everything we do. Individual commitment to them is a key part of our culture and our expectations for each individual Super Slider.

We believe participation in ice sports can develop core key leadership competencies which will set young people up for success in their future lives. Our programmes are focused on experiential learning to allow those competencies  to be understood, learned, practised, valued and adopted as core ‘Super Life’ behaviour.

We believe ice sliding should be truly inclusive and we are committed to demonstrating that inclusion in our activities and interactions with all those with whom we partner. Respect for everyone, regardless of their background or identity, is critical to being a Super Slider. We also believe in the power of community at all levels,  including the embryo Super Slider community that we are building. 

Our Mission

To provide opportunities for young people to develop enduring life competencies and complimentary know how through experiencing our ice sports programmes.

Our Vision

To provide the vision, leadership, governance and know how to secure the resources to deliver the Super Slider programmes that facilitate opportunities for young people (16-25) to develop character, life skills and competencies through the participation in ice sports and associated workshops.

Ambassadors

Corie Mapp
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Lamin Deen OLY
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Laura Deas OLY
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Charlotte Longden
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Matthew Weston OLY
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Brogan Crowley OLY
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Markus Wyatt OLY
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Sponsors

Trustees

Our Trustees set the Ice Sports Foundation strategic direction, monitor the delivery of its objectives and uphold its values and governance

Tony Wallington OBE, OLY
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Sarah Krebs
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Jeremy Elms
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Tom De La Hunty
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Adam Cakebread
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Tiffany Anglim
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Strategic Pillars

PROGRAMMES

  • Work with related charities and their members to deliver programmes
  • Build on the 4-tier programme and related services
  • Develop expertise within the charity
  • Develop young people through all levels of the programme
  • Ensure sports related education/transferable skills are embedded within the programme
  • Provide grants for programmes and individuals

SUSTAINABILITY

  • Ensure financial stability
  • Grow commercial revenue
  • Optimise revenue for the benefit of the programmes
  • Develop a sense of community
  • Develop packages that are valued
  • Maintain good governance and compliance with charity law
  • Develop and make best use of technology
  • Succession planning

PROMOTION

  • Engage with relevant clubs, charities and individuals
  • Promote the programmes and the charity through online, social and conventional means
  • Promote ambassadors and donors
  • Promote the value of ice sports in developing life skills
Corie Mapp
Para Bobsleigh Champion

Corie Mapp was born in Barbados 1978. After leaving school at 16 with no qualifications, Mapp served with the Royal Barbados Police Force and the Barbados Defence Force Reserves. In 2005, he joined the Household Cavalry and from 2006-2008 he served in London with the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, becoming the first ever Barbadian to ride on The Queen’s Birthday Parade. In 2008, he was posted as a combat vehicle driver to the Household Cavalry’s armoured reconnaissance regiment in Windsor, which was deployed to Afghanistan in late 2009. While on active duty there in early 2010 he lost both legs when, under enemy fire, his armoured vehicle ran over an IED. Mapp was unconscious for two weeks but within a month of his injury was starting to walk on prosthetic legs. 

During his time in recovery and rehabilitation, Mapp competed successfully in athletics and sitting volleyball for Team GB in the 2013 Warrior Games, and the first two Invictus Games. He is also played cricket for Hampshire County Cricket disabilities team, winning the championship in 2012 and 2016. In 2013 Mapp was also introduced to para bobsleigh. Initially he was reluctant to participate in the sport, but quickly discovered that he was a natural mono bobsled pilot, winning the first ever Para Bobsleigh World Cup in 2018. In addition to the 2018 result, Mapp won bronze in the 2017 World Championship, silver in the 2018 event and won the European Championship in 2019/20. Currently in the top 3 in the world, in the 2021/22 ISBF season Mapp won the bronze medal in the World Cup, the silver medal in the European Championship and was placed 4th in the World Championship. 

In 2020 Mapp joined Wilshire Police as a fulltime Police Community Support Officer. He has recently been selected to train as a Police Constable. His autobiography Black Ice was published in October 2021.

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Lamin Deen OLY
British Bobsleigh Pilot

Lamin joined the Grenadier Guards in 1998 at age 16, where he quickly took to the way of life with his eyes firmly set on climbing the ranks. By the age of 18, Lamin had already travelled to different parts of the world including conflict zones. He also engaged in the ceremonial role, having had the honour of guarding of the Royal households and participating in the Queen’s birthday parade.

In 2012 he transitioned into fulltime professional sport as he showed huge potential in the sporting area. He then went on to participate in the 2014 and 2018 winter Olympic games, winning medals in the world cup and setting British and other speed records in Boblseigh.

Lamin now has his eyes firmly set on his 3rd Olympic games in 2022.

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Laura Deas OLY
Skeleton Racer

Laura Deas is an international skeleton athlete who has represented Great Britain at the past two Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal at the 2018 edition in PyeongChang 2018. In achieving this, she became part of Team GB history by becoming not only the first (and only) Welsh woman to win a Winter Olympic medal, but also to be part of the first winter Olympic podium to feature more than one Team GB athlete, alongside her teammate Lizzy Yarnold. She has also won multiple world cup medals and competed at 5 World Championships over a 13-year career so far.

Laura came into the sport of skeleton through a ground-breaking talent identification scheme created by UK Sport, in which she successfully transferred from a background in equestrianism. Within 2 years of becoming part of the World Class Programme, she had represented her country at the Junior World Championships, before going on to win medals on every international circuit

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Charlotte Longden
Secretary

Charlotte Longden represented Team GB at the 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games in Switzerland and has since joined the senior set up.

Charlotte finished 12th in the showpiece event in Lausanne after she clocked the 13th fastest time in Run 1 and the 10th quickest in Run 2.

She first represented the British Bobsleigh youth team in February 2019, finishing 11th in her debut race in St Moritz – the same track at which the Youth Olympic Games were held 11 months later.

Charlotte was one of three female athletes selected to compete for an Olympic place and she secured her spot in Switzerland with a ninth and 11th-place finish in Konigssee in November 2019, having achieved exactly the same results in Lillehammer the previous month.

She earned selection as a pilot for the Europa Cup circuit for the 2022/23 sliding season and is set to make her senior international debut shortly.

A former national level swimmer, Charlotte also represented Reading Hockey Club and played netball for her county.

She competed for Team Bath in athletics and it was her involvement there that brought about her interest in bobsleigh thanks to her coach, Julie Alexander.

Charlotte is currently studying Economics and Geography at the University of Leeds.

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Matthew Weston
Ambassadors

Olympian and current European and World Champion for Team GB. I joined the GB Skeleton team in 2017, following a Talent ID process called Discover Gold. After beginning my sports career 7 years ago, I accelerated through the ranks, receiving 6 Gold Medals in my 2022 season and becoming the most successful male in British Skeleton since 2008. My next goal is the 2026 Winter Olympics Games, training towards finishing on top of the podium!

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Brogan Crowley OLY
Ambassadors

Brogan Crowley is a Great Britain Skeleton Athlete, racing in the GBR World Cup Squad.
She became an Olympian at the Beijing Games in February 2022 when she placed 23rd at the showpiece event of the cycle after laying down a top five start in each of her three runs.

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Markus Wyatt OLY
Ambassadors

Marcus Wyatt is a British Skeleton athlete and has been part of the British Team since 2014. He joined the team through the talent transfer scheme Power2Podium after watching Lizzy Yarnold win Gold in the Sochi Olympics and hearing about the trials.
He completed his degree in Psychology at Swansea University where he was also playing American Football before being accepted into the Skeleton team less than six months after graduating.

After first competing for Great Britain in Skeleton in the 2016/17 season, he made his debut on the World Cup the next season securing a top 10 finish.
He has competed regularly since then on the world cup tour and at multiple world championships. More recently he completed a lifelong dream in representing Team GB at the Olympics in 2022.

The season after the Olympics was by far his most successful with him winning his first world cup as well as multiple other medals and taking home 3rd in the overall World Cup standings.

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Tony Wallington OBE, OLY
Chairman

Tony was a soldier for 30 years retiring as a Lt Colonel in the Royal Tank Regiment and then starting a second career creating a business in leadership, performance development and challenge by choice events. He has been involved in both Bobsleigh and Skeleton, including regularly riding the Cresta and competing in Mono Bob since the 1970s. He competed in the 4-man Bobsleigh at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid and Sarajevo finishing a creditable ninth in the first of his Olympic appearances. He was the Team Captain in Lake Placid and won a World Cup bronze medal for GB in Cervinia Italy – prior to his second Olympics. In all he participated in 7 Olympic Winter Games. In the role of Performance Director, leading Great Britain to an Olympic 4 man bobsleigh bronze medal in 1998 Olympic Winter Games – Nagano.

As Honorary President of the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association Wallington continues to be heavily involved in the promotion of skeleton and bobsleigh at grassroots level, regularly coaching new and returning enthusiasts on excursions in both sports in the UK and in Europe.

Tony is a founder trustee and Chairman of the Ice Sports Foundation

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Sarah Krebs

Sarah firmly believes in the positive influence that sport can have in steering young people towards a healthy and balanced life. She feels particularly strongly about the enduring benefits of participating in ice sports and, more specifically, in the empowerment brought about through the overcoming of ones’ fears.
Sarah qualified as a barrister at the time when Olympic medal winners, Shelley Rudman and Amy Williams, were Team GB’s flag bearers at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Inspired by Team GB’s ice sports athletes Sarah enjoyed her first skeleton ride in 2008, has obtained a Mono Bob pilot licence and enjoys participating in amateur Mono Bob competitions when work and family life permit.

Sarah is a founder trustee of the Ice Sports Foundation.

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Jeremy Elms
Secretary

Jeremy became interested in ice sports through a business trip with clients to the Cresta Run in St Moritz in 2005 and still returns annually to ride it.
Having attended the St Moritz Horseshoe MonoBob school and qualified he then raced in the British and International Monobob Championships.
He believes very firmly in the Foundations aim in giving young people the opportunity to develop their character and to learn life skills which can make a difference to their future.
Jeremy knows from personal experience that the suppression of anxiety in order to learn how to compete on ice, can inspire, renew and improve confidence at any stage of life.

Retiring in 2017, he spent 30 years in the City of London, mainly with one leading interdealer broker, facilitating the swap trading activities of its banking clientele

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Tom De La Hunty
Trustees

Tom is one of the most recognisable figures in the sport, having been to the last 11 Olympic Winter Games (OWG) as either an athlete or a coach. He was Head Coach of the British team at the 2006 OWG in Turin and was an assistant coach when the British 4-man crew won Olympic bronze in Nagano eight years earlier – a role he also held at Albertville in 1992 and Lillehammer in 1994. He also was part of the Team GB coaching staff at the 2018 OWG in PyeongChang. This was due to the fact his Dutch team did not qualify for the games. He spent six years as Head Coach of the Canadian team from 2010, during which time he oversaw a second Olympic gold medal, two World Championship crowns and three overall World Cup titles for Kaillie
Humphries, as well as overall World Cup and World Championships medals for Lyndon Rush. Tom was Head Coach of the Dutch team from 2000-2002, 2006-10 and from 2016-2022 taking them to the Salt Lake City, Vancouver and Beijing OWG respectively. Unusually from 2018 the Dutch and Belgian team combined so he was responsible for both teams in Beijing.

Tom has more than 42 years’ experience in bobsleigh, having taken his first steps in the sport shortly after joining the Royal Air Force in 1979. During his time in the military, Tom won the RAF Championships on no fewer than 13 occasions and was
crowned British Champion five times. He competed at five World Championships and at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics as a pilot, placing 12 th in the 2 man event in Calgary.

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Adam Cakebread
Trustees

A keen participant of many sports, Adam took up the Luge and Skeleton more recently as a recreational slider and has grown to love the thrill of the ice. Fascinated by the athleticism and precision of Olympic sliders, Adam would love to play his part in giving the opportunity for talented individuals to take their first steps towards becoming competitive sliders, but is also equally as happy seeing young people delight in the escapism of taking part in a new an interesting sport, for sports sake.

Adam joined Super Sliders as Treasurer having worked in Finance and Accounting roles across several industries for almost 2 decades.

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Tiffany Anglim
Trustees

Tiffany is a passionate advocate of nurturing a winning mindset in young people. She knows that sport and coaching, as embodied by the Super Sliders programme, equips young people with the strength and resilience required to face challenges, seize opportunities and fulfil their potential regardless of background. She first became hooked on skeleton and luge in 2017 after a terrifying and exhilarating first visit to the Olympic Ice Track at Igls in Innsbruck, Austria. Tiffany has also been a supporter of Oxfordshire Youth since 2014 and ran the Oxford Half Marathon in 2019.

Tiffany is the Runway and Campaigns Director at Oxford Fashion Studio and has launched collections by more than 700 designers from 72 countries on the runway during fashion week in New York, London, Milan and Paris. In 2021 Tiffany facilitated the creation and launch of London Fashion Week’s first adaptivewear collection, featuring former GB Wheelchair Basketball U25 Women’s European Championships silver medalist Ella Archer on the runway.

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