ISPS & Golf
Honorary Chairman
Greetings from ISPS Honorary Chairman, Lord Carey
"It is a pleasure to introduce you to the International Sports Promotion Society (ISPS).
ISPS is committed to supporting charitable causes within the sporting world so I was delighted when I was asked to become the Honorary Chairman of this organisation. Sport has a unique ability to bring people together from differing backgrounds and contribute to social development and empowerment throughout the world.
I first met the founder of ISPS, Dr Haruhisa Handa, a well known Japanese philanthropist, in 1998 through our work on the World Faiths Development Dialogue (closely associated with the World Bank) and the charitable work he leads in Cambodia for needy children and young people. It is impressive to see Dr Handa’s commitment to humanitarian causes and the way he has used sport, in particular blind golf, to help people less advantaged in life.
Dr Handa has supported blind golf for nearly a quarter of a century. He set up the Japanese Blind Golf Association (JBGA) 23 years ago and through his extraordinary vitality, the International Blind Golf Association (IBGA) has been established to help coordinate the efforts of various blind golf associations around the world.
ISPS’s collaboration with the IBGA has grown in strength in the last year with the support of a number of high profile golf events around the world. ISPS is grateful for the role of its ambassadors - Ian Woosnam, Sandy Lyle, Sam Torrance, Ian Baker-Finch and Wayne Grady- and for their commitment to raise awareness for blind golf and to encourage more people with visual impairment to take up the sport.
It is organizations like the IBGA which ISPS is committed to supporting so that young people, those in their senior years, and people with disabilities, from various backgrounds around the world, can be inspired by sport."
Lord Carey of Clifton
Honorary Chairman ISPS
Lord Carey’s Biography
George Carey was born in London in 1935. He served with the British Royal Air Force in Iraq during the 1950s and by the time he was twenty decided to be ordained as a minister into the Church of England. In 1982 he became Principal of Trinity Theological College in Bristol and, in 1987, Bishop of Bath and Wells. In 1991 he was invited to take up the post of 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury and served 70 million Anglicans around the world until his retirement in 2002 when he was made a life peer. Lord Carey is currently Chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire and President of the London School of Theology. He is Chairman of the United Church Schools Trust.Until recently he was on the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum.
He with his wife, Eileen, is proud to be a keen supporter of Arsenal Football Club and even more delighted to become Honorary Chairman of ISPS in 2010.
