Dear parents,
I am sorry to announce that the Futura Olympics on Wednesday is cancelled.
The last few days have been crazy, but here is what has happened:
Djurgården was extremely upset when they found out we had hired the field because the pitch is apparently in bad shape. They forbid anyone to use it, and we were informed of this decision on Wednesday 8th may ( before the holidays )by Daniel Björk when we went for our meeting to discuss final preparations.
This brings up a great deal of legal and ethical issues. Djurgården does not own Stadion, it is Stockholm Stad that does. We had originally contacted Stadion in September 2012, and our booking, with the playing field for an additional cost of 25 000 SEK, was confirmed in January 2013. We have met several times with them and until Wednesday, everything was going ahead as planned. We were then informed on Wednesday about the change.
Having said that, it is impossible to do the event on Wednesday without the field, so we have to cancel… looks like football wins over school children… sad but true!
We went over to try to book Östermalm’s IP and we have just been informed this morning that this is not available either.
We will now continue negotiations with Stadion, and we will try to arrange the event in September.
From a practical point of view, we will contact our sponsors, etc and inform them of the developments.
I would like to make it clear that it is clearly because of the actions of Daniel Björk and Djurgården (Stadion), and not through any fault of our own. I am still a bit shocked that we can be informed of this last Wednesday, a week before the event, with no chance to contact them on Thursday/Friday because of the holidays. We tried one last time this morning, and their decision is final.
We are still going to have our own Olympics for our children from Maskinvägen in a nearby park.
We will start the activities there around 0900 a.m
If you have any doubts, please let me know
Once again, Sorry for all this!
I am very upset myself L
Best Regards
Adriana Marx Norén
Principal
Futuraskolan- International pre-school of Täby
Mobil: 0723-712800
E-mail: adriana.noren@futuraskolan.se