Sports
Joanna Nim Heung Yeung
Community Learning Officer
Arts. Community. Culture. Education. Sports.
At the age of 10, Joanna emigrated from Hong Kong to live in the UK. In 1992, she moved from Lincoln to London, where she was exposed to more of the multicultural life of Britain and became an active member of several local youth clubs, representing the needs and interests of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds.
Since 2000, Joanna has worked in voluntary and organisations and local government building relationships and engaging community groups to take an active role in developing a positive social well being for themselves and others.
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Hong Y Soo
FootballerSports.
Hong Y ‘Frank’ Soo can be seen as the first non-white man to play for England, representing them in unofficial Internationals during World War II. ‘Frank’ Soo became the first player of Chinese origin to play in the Football league. Playing for Stoke City from 1933 to 1945, Soo would probably have played at international level for England had World War II not intervened.
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Wang Haijun
Taiji Competitor and InstructorCulture. Sports.
Wang Haijun had an impressive record as a Taiji competitor, having won gold medals three times in the Chinese National Martial Arts competition. He is also a grade one coach, having gained his qualification in the Wuhan Sports Academy in China. Since coming to the UK he has worked tirelessly to increase the standard of Taiji practice in this country and he is currently mentoring groups throughout the UK, Ireland and the USA.
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