Active Cumbria October
Featuring Britains fastest growing sport Triathlon and the how Cumbria athletes are leading the way. Tim Whitmarsh of Carlisle Tri Club takes national team to Australia to compete in the ITU World Long Distance World Championships. Everything you need to know about joining a Gym. Alternative activity for Hamilton wannabe's as we feature malcolm Fell's Cumbria Karting Club out at Rowrah. Carrie Buchanan tells us how her small and simple steps helped her lose weight and change her life >>more
Planning now for 2010/11 Courses
Cumbria Sport Partnership are now half way through delivering their 2009/2010 Sports Workforce Education Programme (SWEP) and want to make next year's programme even bigger better and have therefore already started planning for the 2010/2011 programme. If there is a course or courses that you would be interested in attending now is your chance to say!
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We will try to offer as many courses as possible.
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Dream It! Believe It! Achieve It!
Did you know that the FA runs England teams for the following groups of male players, Blind players, players with Cerebral Palsy, Partially sighted players, Amputee players. These teams train regularly and represent England in friendly internationals as well as European and World Championships. Follow the link if you know a budding footballer and want to find out more about the talent days being held in manchester?
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Barrow Sports Awards 2009
Barrow Borough Sports Awards promises to be bigger and better than ever before in 2009 nominations should be forwarded to Chris Athersmith no later than noon on Monday 5th October. Barrow Sports Council will short list the finalists on 8th October.Annual Awards Ceremony is held at Barrow Town Hall on Friday 20th November.
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Barrow Sports Council You Tube Channel
See short videos of some of the activities Barrow Sports Council helped to put on over the holidays. At the moment it is mainly activities for children with disabilities but soon there will be a whole range of videos uploaded
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Get involved with the Club & Volunteer Evenings
This Autumn and Winter Cumbria Sport will be running a series of evenings across the county for community clubs and new young volunteers. The School Sport Partnerships have been promoting the Step Into Sport Volunteering Programme and the evening will provide the opportuinity to match the young volunteers to clubs. The evening will also provide clubs with the opportunity to find out about developments around Clubmark and new courses available on SWEP (Sports Wrokforce Education Programme). See the dates in the events section on the left
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UK Coaching Awards
Each year the annual UK Coaching Awards, hosted by sports coach UK, honours coaches who have achieved outstanding success over the past 12 months.The event - which in 2009 will take place on Tuesday 8 December at Old Billingsgate in London - is seen as one of the most prestigious within the industry and is attended by some of the most important and influential people in sport and coaching.Previous winners include Sir Clive Woodward, Sir Bobby Robson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Frank Dick, Chalkie White, Sir Alf Ramsey and Jurgen Grobler to name but a few >>more
Sport England & Facebook join forces!
Sport England and Facebook have announced a new partnership that will transform the way sports bodies engage with participants as they deliver a lasting Olympic legacy of one million people playing more sport. Central to this new way of working is the new Facebook ‘Sport Hub’ which enables NGBs to engage with over 20 million people who use Facebook in the UK. The ‘Hub’ looks and feels like a Facebook fan page but offers a range of new applications, enabling NGBs to organise and market grassroots sports events. Facebook users are able to challenge other people in their area to compete against them – whether in a squash match or a running race – and then share the results with their Facebook friends and networks
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Carlisle win the first ever National Golf Roots Festival
On Wednesday 16th September 10 extremely excited boys from Newlaithes Junior School, Carlisle boarded the coach to take them to Loughborough for the first ever National Golf Roots Festival final. Newlaithes had won their place by competing in the Carlisle Tri-Golf Festival at Richard Rose Academy in July.
Children from England and Wales represented their schools and cities to compete for the national title. Each team had to earn points by competing over 14 different Tri-Golf challenges which were expertly co-ordinated by 30 or so young volunteers. Congratulations again to Newlaithes! Planning is already underway for the 2010 Golf Roots Festival.
Free Swimming can apply for London 2012 Inspire Mark
The Government’s free swimming initiative is an important part of our plans to secure a long-term legacy from London hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games - and to get two million people more active and more healthy. As this initiative that is genuinely Inspired by the Olympic & Paralympics Games it is eligible to apply for the Inspire Mark. Within the Northwest we would like to have all of our Free Swimming programmes in the process of being Inspire marked by 31st October 2009 - 1000 days to go to the Games. >> apply here. For more details on the Inspire Programme >>more |
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