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Netball TeamThere are many sports and physical activities available in the borough and we are keen to encourage people to live a fit and healthy lifestyle.  We work in partnership with various organisations in delivering sporting opportunities for all, offering support, advice and guidance for individuals and local sports clubs.

 

Whether its bowls, golf or general fitness we have lots on offer. You can also find out about clubs, disability sport, facilities and sports initiatives, and we also have information about our play areas for you to check out.

Ashford Sporting News

Super Women launches Bursary

Active Ashford have launched a sports bursary for talented disabled sportspeople in partnership with the Ashford Outlet Centre. 

 

The launch of the scheme was conducted at the Outlet Centre with the support of the new patron Hilary Lister.

 

For more information click on the file

 

To find out more about the launch come back soon.

 

School serves an ace

 

Wyvern School, Ashford has been selected by Volleyball England to become one of only eight national development centres for Sitting Volleyball and is now actively seeking new players.

 

The school, known for its great work in developing disability sport, was short listed for this prestigious award in August.  It was the school’s good links with the Mid Kent & Ashford School Sport Partnership and Tom Middleton, Kent County Council Volleyball Development Officer, that sealed the deal.

 

For further details please contact Tom Middleton on 07710772533.

 

Another medal for Ashford athletes

Nicholas Boylan an Active Ashford Sporting Ambassador swam as a member of the GB Team, in the 100m breaststroke, at the IPC European Swimming Champions in Iceland.

 
Nicholas was one of seven swimmers within the new S14 classification for athletes with a learning disability. Since the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games learning disabled athletes have been suspended from all Paralympic Sports events, following cheating among the Spanish L.D. Basketball Team. The IPC European Swimming Championships was therefore the first event since 2000 which included learning disabled competitors.
 
In his race, Nicholas recorded a time of 1:14.70.  This won him the Silver medal, for second place, and was a new personal best taking 3 seconds of his previous p.b.
 
It was announced that learning disability sportspeople will be allowed to compete at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Active Ashford website

The Sports Partnership for the Borough of Ashford launched the website on August 24 to coincide with the London 2012 Handover event.  The site contains information on the partnership, how to get Active and much more, go to the website for further details.  Active Swim and Active Together schemes successes are reported on.

Women, interested in running?

The Women’s running network are launching sessions for women of all ages and abilities to take part in running around Ashford, for further information please visit the website – The 10 week sessions begin on Tuesday 6th October, for more information contact Lisa on 0793 0315813.

Kids club at the Stour Centre

A kids activity club at the Stour Centre begins in September aimed at children aged 8-13, more information is available here.

New Club Directory - We need your help!

If you are part of a sports club Ashford Borough Council is offering a new service for all voluntary sports clubs in the area.  The club directory is aimed  to offer a complete list of all clubs in the Borough. Visitors to our website can search for clubs by category eg sport and location, and view a range of information on each club. There is no charge for this service.

 

Club pages

 

Each club has a range of pages they can update for free, including:

 

Organisation description
• Meeting address
• Website address
• Member of Ashford Community Network
• Facilities and Policies

 

If you require further information please contact Simon Harris on 01233 330232.

 

Interested in Ashford's 2009 Community Youth Football League?

Visit the Youth Football webpage to find out more!

Do you want to learn how to play Tennis or start playing Netball?

If so, visit the Courtside webpage to find out more!

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This webpage was updated on 12/3/2009

 

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