County News

NEW Disability Sport Directory in Development

We are currently gathering information about disability sport and activity clubs around the County for inclusion within our next edition of the Disability Sport Directory. This directory will include Sports Clubs, Youth Clubs, Soft Play and much more. However I need your help. While I have a list of what is currently being provided around the County, I am sure there are more excellent opportunities that I am not aware of. So if you run a club, help at a club or attend a club and think we could include them in our new directory then please complete the form below and return to: mfosbrook@staffordbc.gov.uk or post to:

Mark Fosbrook

Sport Across Staffordshire & S-O-T

Stafford Borough Council

Civic Centre

Riverside

Staffs

ST163AQ

Click here to download Club Information Form 

Wheelchair Skills Training Course – Call NOW!

Stafford Borough Council’s Sports Development team in partnership with the charity Whizz-kidz are holding a wheelchair skills training course in the summer holidays and we want you to join us!  

• Are you in a wheelchair?
• Are you aged between 3 and18?
• Would you like to learn new skills and have great fun on a three day course in the school summer holidays?

If the answer to these questions is yes then we have just the course for you! Stafford Borough Council’s Sports Development team in partnership with the charity Whizz-kidz is putting on a wheelchair skills course designed to help improve your wheelchair skills in a fun and enjoyable way.

Wheelchair Skills Training is an excellent opportunity to learn new skills and have fun with other young wheelchair users in your area.  You will be taught important skills according to your needs including spatial awareness, manoeuvring techniques and road safety skills.  Our trainers are excellent role models and all have lots of experience and knowledge about wheelchairs; many of them are full time wheelchair users.

The course will be running at:

Sir Graham Balfour High School

Stafford

Monday 8^th August – Wednesday 10^th August

11am – 4pm

and the course is FREE

To book onto this course or to find out more information please call or email Jenny Moore on 01785 619565 or jmoore@staffordbc.gov.uk as soon as possible as places on this course are very limited. 

Click here to download flyer

Click here to download a registration form

Project Spitfire

Free Activities, sport and fun

Open to anyone aged 11 – 16

3 August and 25 August

Start: 9.30 - 4.30

Lunch and refreshements are included

Venue: Dimensions Leisure Centre

• Chance to go on to learn new skills such as British Sign Language and mentoring
• Play new sports – goalball, sitting volleyball, new-age kurling and wheelchair basketball
• Chance to volunteer at other events
• Meet new people, including top sports men
• and women

• Certificate for everyone who attends;
• Full day of fun, activities and sport;
• Disability awareness through sport;
• Chance to learn about and play some sports that will be included in the 2012 London Paralympic Games;
• Opportunities to develop further skills.

Goalball – a sport originally developed for blind athletes. Played in teams of 3,

where all players wear a blindfold and play using a ball with bells inside.

Sitting volleyball – not as relaxing as it sounds! A very active sport which

disabled and non-disabled people of all ages can play

New-age kurling – similar to the winter sport of curling, but new-age kurling isn’t

played on ice. It can be played on any level surface, such as sports halls. The

idea is to get as many of your stones closer to the centre of the target than your

opponents.

Wheelchair basketball – one of the most famous “disability sports”. The rules are almost the same as standard basketball, except all players use wheelchairs, whether or not they have a disability.

Click here to download a registration form

For more details about either of these sessions or disability golf contact:]

Craig Thomas - 07973798483 - ctommogolf@aol.com