Barrow Borough Sports Council

Barrow Borough Sports Awards 2010

Nominations are now invited for the Barrow Borough Sports Council Annual Sports Awards.  The Awards will be presented on Friday 19th November 2010 at Barrow Town Hall. 

We require nominations for successful clubs, teams and individuals over the past year. There are 6 categories; 

Service to Sport - This award will be presented to individuals who have contributed long service to sport.  These individuals may not be participants, but have given their time to such roles as secretary, treasurer, committee member, groundsperson, etc.

Junior Team - under 17 team. 

Open Age Team - over 16 team or a club that may include all ages.

Junior Sportsperson - sportsperson under the age of 17.  

Adult Sportsperson - sportsperson over the age of 16. 

Young Sports Volunteer - young person under the age of 20, who has volunteered within sport over the past year.  

If an individual is being nominated, they need to live within Barrow Borough.  If a team or club needs to be located within the Borough.

You can download the nomination form here.  Nominations must be returned to Chris Athersmith by noon on 1st October.

Club Development Evening

Barrow Sports Council's Club Development Evening will be taking place on Thursday 23rd September at Abbey House.

Thanks to everyone who booked early.  We have enough bookings to confirm that the event will take place but we will continue to take more bookings up to 17th September.

The event will be invaluable to local clubs.  We will have people on hand to help your club with funding, volunteers, workforce development, marketing and many other areas.

The event will start promptly at 6.30 so please get there by 6.15 to register and get a brew.  The event will take the form of speed dating with 10 minute sessions on a variety of topics.  

Attached are more details and a booking form.        

Please contact Stuart Meredith on 844835 for more information.

Our 2011-15 Strategy - we want your views

We have just started to plan our 2011-15 Sport and Physical Activity Strategy.  Whether you are a coach, a public official, a parent or a young person, we want to hear from you.  We are asking for your opinions about sport and physical activity in the area. 

What are the strengths and weaknesses?  What should we be doing? What should our priorities be for 2011-16?

We are asking people people to complete out initial survey. 

This will be open until the end of September.  We will then produce a draft Strategy and ask for your views again.  

Why bother?  Our Strategy will determine our priorities - where we spend our money and where we devote most time.   

If you want to view our current Strategy and see what we are doing to implement it, the relevant documents are here.

Winter Bowls at Abbots Vale

It's the end of the bowling season

Give yourself a head start for next season by practicising on Barrow's only all-weather bowling green at Abbots Vale.

It's just £1 for a 2 hour session or you can book the green for a game for only £8.50.

To book a  session or for more details contact Karen Dodding by email or ring 830900

Street Soccer at Greengate 

Street Soccer at Greengate Junior School.

The sessions will run every Wednesday 6:30-8pm  for 9-12 year olds

and every Thursday 6:30-8pm for 13- 16 year olds    

Last sessions are 15th and 16th September.

Its fun and it's free!!! No kit needed, just turn up and play!!!
Contact Craig at Barrow AFC Community Initiative on 07816163346 for more details.

After that, we will be back to Hindpool, starting on 29th September at Hindpool Urban Park  Watch this space for more details.

Barrow Sports Council 'Kits for Malawi' Appeal

Barrow Sports Council recently launched an appeal for unwanted sports kit to send to villages and townships in Malawi.  The appeal is for any full team strips - football, rugby, netball, hockey, volleyball or any other team sport.  The only condition is that they need to be for a full team. 

Barrow Sports Council Chair Tony Callister handing over the first two strips for Barry Doughty to send to Malawi. 

and here's our first rugby strip from Walney Cents....

and we also got some football, rugby and netball kit from the 6th Form College!

Our latest donation is from Glaxo Hockey Club. 

Thanks to everyone - keep them coming. 

If you have a strip to give away, they can be left with Barrow Sports Council at the Nan Tait Centre, Abbey Road or ring Emma on 407319 or Derek on 407575.

We can promote your activities - just send us details

If you have any sports acttivities open to the general public, we can promote them in our weekly email, on What's happening and on our calendar.  Our weekly email goes out directly to over 1000 people every week.  We know that many people forward this to friends, club members and work colleagues.  Other websites also share our calendar.

So if you've got anything on, we can promote it to hundreds of people for free.  Just email Emma your activity, the date, time, venue, cost and contact details and we'll do the rest.

Join us and help to develop sport

We welcome new nominations for members of the Sports Council from local clubs all year round.  So if you want to join us, don't wait for our next AGM in November 2010.  You can nominate a member now.  Click here to open the nomination form!

If you want to know who we are and what we do, have a look here or ring Emma on 407319 .

Check out our You Tube site

We now have a You Tube site.  On it, you can see short videos of some of the activities we put on over the holidays.   The Barrow Skate site isn't finished yet but that's here.    

Are you or your club looking for funding?

 

 

 

Cumbria CVS produce a monthly funding news letter for community and voluntary groups. Click  here  for the May edition.

Kick it Out aims to remove racism in sport and to increase the participation in sport by the black and minority ethnic community.
Report any incidents of discrimination, abuse or harassment to your local Police on 0845 330 0247

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