Barrow Borough Sports Council

The sessions take place Monday evenings 5:30-6:30pm (except some school holidays) at Hoops Basketball Centre, Thorncliffe Road. The club is for children with disabilities and their families. The sessions are free and there is no need to book - you can just turn up.  You don't need to wear sports kit but please wear trainers. 

If you would like to help out at the sessions or would like more information please contact Lis Stephenson 

InsideOut Soccer Schools are still taking bookings for their New Year Holiday football fun days.   

These are on Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th January at the Park Leisure Centre.

You can choose to book for full days 10.00am – 3.00pm or half day mornings (10am-12pm) and you can also book for any number of days.

To book your place simply call 01229 430857 or download a form from www.insideoutsoccer.co.uk

The new school and community sports complex at Dowdales School is due to open in January 2009 and has been named D.A.S.H. (Dalton Active Sports Hall) at Dowdales.

The following sessions are currently being advertised:-

Multi Skills Sessions for primary aged children that will develop their agility, balance and co-ordination through a variety of different physical activities.  Each course is for 5 weeks and places are still available on all three sessions as follows:-

Yr 1 & 2           09.00-10.00am

Yr 3 & 4           10.00-11.00am

Yr 5 & 6           11.00-12noon

The sessions will run on Saturday January 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st and February 8th 2009 at a cost of £10.00 for the 5 week course.

A Mini Tennis Coaching Programme will be delivered by LTA qualified tennis coach Caroline Clutterbuck and will consist of a 1 hour session per week for 10 weeks including coaching, ball skills, co-ordination and footwork, training drills, match practice and competition.  The course will run on a Sunday morning and places are still available on all three sessions as follows:-

Ages 5-8          09.00-10.00am

Ages 8, 9         10.00-11.00am

Ages 10,11      11.00-12noon

These sessions will run on Sunday January 11th, 18th, 25th, February 1st, 8th, March 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th 2009 at a cost of £38.00 for the 10 week course.

All of these details (including booking forms) are available on the school website .  Alternatively, with regards to the tennis coaching you can ring Caroline on 01229 586233 or Mobile 07866 737392 or email her on caroline.clutterbuck@ascott.co.uk .  With regards to the multi skills sessions contact Deborah Brown at Dowdales School on telephone 01229 897911 or email on dbrown@dowdales.cumbria.sch.uk

It’s vital for our children to eat well - otherwise they won’t grow up into healthy, happy adults. If they have too much hidden fat in their bodies now, it puts them at risk from serious diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart disease in later life.
 
Which is where Change4Life comes in. It is a new Department of Health initiative which aims to help families eat well, move more and live longer and it’s really important to our kids’ futures. But it’s also going to be fun! As the movement starts to grow, there will be plenty of brilliant things to get involved in. These will include local events and activities, magazines and tasty recipe ideas, amongst many other things.

Sign up to join in this new initiative now.   

Cumbria CVS send out an e-bulletin newsletter about community issues every Friday.  This will cover various community issues in the Furness area and advice for charities and community groups. 

If you would like to start receiving the e-mail or have information that you would like to be included in the newsletter, submissions need to be received by 2pm every Thursday.

Please contact: Julie Sharkey - Tel: 01229 823144, email: juliesh@cumbriacvs.org.uk

Do you care for a child or young adult with a disability? Can we help you to help yourselves?
Come and join us at Ormsgill Community Centre on Thursday 15th January 2009,1pm to 3pm

The workshop has been called by a small number of parents and carers who want to make a difference.              
The workshop will be run by the Community Unit of Cumbria County Council.
                     
Why?

There are few opportunities for parents and carers to get together and share ideas. 
We want to see if people want to work together to make all our lives easier!
What we are going to do

We want to ask you a few questions; 

As a parent or carer of a disabled child, what services, activities or support do you find useful?
What major difficulties do you have as a parent/carer?
What could we do as a group of parents to make our lives easier?

What we hope to get out of it

We hope to agree some actions that we can work on together.
What you will get out of it

Hopefully you will find it interesting and useful.  But at the very least, you will get a chance to meet other parents and carers and have a chat and a brew. 

Please pass this on to anyone who may be interested.

If you want to know more about the meeting or can’t attend and would like to comment, contact
Lis Stephenson on 407310 or lis.stephenson@cumbriacc.gov.uk

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Any funds we raise will go to support local sports.  Thanks. 

Level 1 Football Coaching Course – February 2009
For more information, please contact Tony Callister on 07789 773122

Level 2 Football Coaching Course – June 2009
For more information, please contact Tony Callister on 07789 773122

A Gym Instructor level 2 course organised by the Furness College Sports Hub and run by Focus training will start next year!!

PLACES ARE LIMITED!! For more information vist the Training Page or contact Stuart Meredith

Girls, do you want to try a new sport, have fun, make new friends.  Then why not try rugby league?

Barrow Island have a girls rugby league team. The training is on a Monday evening at St George Hall, The Strand, from 5.30 to 6.30pm.

All players and ages welcome.

For more details contact John Jefferson on 829390  or Lisa on 07885498709

Get on-line with Barrow Raiders and help the club launch the Barrow Raiders e-zine. Rugby league fans can now sign up to a new e-magazine offering them more of an insight into the club and keeping them up to date with news, fixtures and just about everything else that is happening down at Craven Park. The Directors and staff are inviting fans to sign up to this exciting new email service. The Raiders e-zine will feature the latest stories from the team and the wider rugby league world, and forms a key element of ensuring the Raiders remains a club that the people of Furness can identify with and more importantly, feel a part of.

It’s simple to sign up. All you do is send an email to news@barrowrlfc.com with the title ‘subscribe’ in the subject heading.

The Raiders e-zine will form part of a wider communications exercise currently being undertaken at the club. The club is keen to see where their support comes from and at this early stage supporters can help by signing up and adding their postcode and house number. This is optional, but it will allow the club to better understand who their fans are and support the development of the club in the communities of Barrow and South Cumbria.

To all Raiders fans, get online and get signed up!

Barrow Raiders are looking for ground stewards for the new season.

For the right people, training will be provided and paid for up to NVQ Level 2.  This could then lead to you getting paid for games you steward for the club.

If you are interested, contact Stuart Meredith on 01229 844766 or stuart.meredith@furness.ac.uk