Barrow Borough Sports Council

Half term activities for children with a disability

It’s all free except the cinema which is £3.80 for every child - parent or carer free.  Activities in bold need to be booked.  For other activities, just turn up.  Full booking details below.

Monday 13th February

Play Max 12.45 – 2.15pm at the Park
Multi-Max 1.30 – 3.30pm at the Park

Tuesday 14th February

Aqua Max 10.00 – 11.00am at the Park
Climbing 3.00 – 4.00pm at the Park THIS IS NOW FULL

extra climbing session added 4.00 - 5.00pm

Wednesday 15th February

Sunbeams 1.30 – 3.30pm at Ormsgill Childrens Centre
Canoe 4.30 – 5.30pm at the Park  THIS IS NOW FULL
Aqua Max 6.30 – 7.15pm at the Park

Thursday 16th February

Horse Riding 1.00 – 2.00pm at Seaview  THIS IS NOW FULL

Trampoline Session 4.00–5.00pm at Dash (for children with autism)
Trampoline Session 5.00–6.00pm at Dash

Friday 17th February

Your Move 10.00 – 11.00am at the Forum
Horse Riding 1.00 – 2.00pm at Seaview
Co-Mmotion 11.00–3.00pm at the Forum    (specifically for children with autism)

Sunday 19th February

Cinema Club – 1.00pm / 1:30pm
Exact time to be confirmed

No need to book, just turn up, family and friends welcome.

Multi Max  - Bouncy Castle, fun games in the Main Hall at the Park.
Play Max – Soft play room at the Park
Aqua Max   - Fun session in the main pool at the Park Leisure Centre. Family and friends welcome.  Morning and evening sessions.

The following have limited places available. Please call 407312 to book. 

If you have to cancel for any reason, please let us know.  We will have a reserve list so we may be able to fill your place even if it’s the last minute!  Thanks.
Canoe – In the pool at the Park Leisure Centre. 
Climbing – On the climbing wall at the Park Leisure Centre.
Your Move - An imaginative approach to dance music and creativity. A fun and informal event with Dancer Tids and  Musician Alan
 Horse Riding - At Seaview Riding School, Biggar Village, Walney. 
Trampoline – At DASH @ Dowdales.  4pm session is for children with autism.  5pm session is for children with other disabilities.
Sunbeams – A fun Music Workshop at Ormsgill Children’s Centre with our friends from Sunbeams.  Funded by the Big Lottery.  Please book with Sunbeams directly on  017684 83035 or through Michelle on 407312.

Co-Mmotion – New Creative Music and Dance Project with Tids & Fitz (your move). Funded by Northern Rock. Specifically for young people with autism.  Sessions are available to suit your needs. Bookings can also be arranged throughout the week. Siblings welcome!
For more info or to book. Tids 07877058760    -  Fitz 07772302600 

Cinema Club.   At the Apollo Cinema.  Film and exact start time to be confirmed.  It will be a top children’s film, starting around 1pm to 1.30pm.  Details on here website as soon as we know.  Children £3.80, parent or carer free.  Please ring 407312 to obtain free membership. 

Aqua Max Evening Club

Indoor disability football sessions 

Barrow Sports Council and Barrow AFC are now running weekly football sessions for young people with a disability.  

The sessions are at DASH @ Dowdales which is a very disabled friendly venue on the Dowdales School site at Dalton.

Sessions will be every Tuesday in term time from 5pm to 6pm and cost £1 per person.

Coaching is provided by the Barrow AFC Community team.  The sesions are subsidised by a donation from the Shorty Shaw Festival.

There is no need to book but if wish to book in advance or want more information, please contact Craig Rutherford on 07816163346 or by email

Wheelchair sports with Furness Wildcats

The sessions take place Monday evenings 5.30 to 6.30pm (term time only) at Hoops Basketball Centre, Thorncliffe Road. The club is for children with disabilities and their families.   We play different wheelchair sports each week, including rugby, basketball, cricket, hockey, netball and football.  If you don't want to join in the main session, we also have other games available.

You don't have to be a wheelchair user to take part - we have chairs available for up to 20 participants each week.

If you are interested in joining the club, please email Nicola or come along to one of the free sessions every Monday evening from 5:30-6:30pm.

Donation from Shorty Shaw Festival

Barrow Sports Council has received a donation of £1,032.50 to help provide activities for children with a disability.
The donation was presented by Dalton United from the proceeds of the Stuart 'Shorty' Shaw Football Festival. The Festival was held in July in memory of the local footballer who died in a car accident earlier this year.

In recognition of Stuart's love of sport, Stuart's family asked for half of the funds to go to support sport for disabled children.
Our thanks go to Stuart's family and Dalton United and we will make sure the money is well spent. The donation will help to support a range of free sports activities including our disability football sessions at DASH @ Dowdales. 

The other half of the fund was donated to bereavement charity, the Bluebell Foundation.

Sunbeams at Ormsgill - Wednesdays in the holidays

Sunbeams was founded by Annie Mawson in 1992 to provide therapeutic music to people with special needs. The Charity provides Music For Life in over 100 live music workshops per month to people who are disadvantaged. The service is available to children and adults with a wide variety of special needs including physical disabilities and mental health problems, Alzheimers and senile dementia, cerebral palsy, autism, Down's Syndrome, sensory impairments, emotional and behavioural disturbance and profound multiple disabilities.

Thanks to a grant from the National Lottery, they run sessions at Ormsgill Childrens Centre on Wednesday afternoons in school holidays.  The 2012 dates are here.

Visit their website for more details or ring 017684 83035.

Horse Riding sessions at Seaview Riding School, Biggar Village

For bookings and further information please ring Claire Hayton at Seaview on 07766402757. 

Support group for families caring for a child with Autism and/or ADHD

Do you care for a child with Autism and/or ADHD?  Come and have a coffee and a chat with other parents and carers.  it will give you a chance to chat freely with people who know exactly what you are going through.

The group has just been meeting for coffee but plans to do lots more as a group to help and support each other. 

For more details, contact Deborah Brownson on 07908 256942 or by email.

PlayMax Soft Play and Sensory Room at the Park

PlayMAX is the indoor play soft arena at thwe Park.
It’s a safe environment for all children, including those with disabilities and with challenging behaviour.
The soft play area contains various wedges, waves, logs and steps, slide, ball pool, trampoline, illuminated cabin and interactive musical hopscotch, upturned mushroom which rocks from side to side, sensation trail and funky slouch pods.

Click here to view the current timetable.  

Please note, rthe  'Max Inspiration Sensory Room' sessions are for children with a disability. 

In the sensory room, situated within the arena, is a highly flexible, controlled multi-sensory stimulation environment using lighting effects, colour, sounds, scents and textures.
The sensory room is designed for people with sensory, cognitive and physical impairments and meets the challenge of both the interactive and the passive user through educational and therapeutic activities.
The Sensory Room is only available for children with a disability.  

The Park has produced a short guide to help you to get maximum benefit from the Sensory Room. We also have a short film on Youtube

For use of the Sensory Room, it is adviseable to have an induction by one of the Park Leisure Centre Staff so you know how to use the equipment before you book a session.

Please contact Margaret Wilson on 871146 extension 204 or Ian Jones on 871146 extension 206 at The Park Leisure Centre to arrange an induction.    

 

Parents and Carers Forum

Parents and carers of disabled children getting together for support and change

We welcome all parents/carers of disabled children to come and join us.

We meet every few weeks to discuss how to improve the lives of our children and ourselves.

We work with providers of services to ensure they meet the needs of our children.

We help to promote positive opportunities available for our children.

And we provide support to each other.

If you are the parent or carer of a child with a disability, please feel free to join us. 

Our next Parents and Carers meeting will be the week after half term.  Date to be confirmed shortly. 

We had agreed to alternate between evening and afternoon.  More people have attended the evening meetings but we thought we would give the afternoon another go and give people more notice.  For further information contact Derek Brook on 407575.

MAX Inspiration at the Youth Gym at the Park Leisure Centre 

Sunday 10.30 to 11.30am @£2.50 a session

All children taking part in these sessions MUST be accompanied by a parent, guardian, carer or responsible adult.
This person must also stay with the child throughout the session as they are responsible for making sure the child exercises safely.

The Park Leisure Centre will not be having a dedicated member of staff working in the Youth Gym at this time.

However, the staff member working in the Adult Gym will be available to assist or offer advice when necessary.

If attending the MAX Inspiration sessions for the first time please make it known to the instructor on duty that they need to demonstrate how all the equipment works.

This will be monitored for a few weeks to make sure it works successfully.

Further information is now available on the Park Leisure Centre website. 

Not sure if this is for you?   If you would like to visit the Youth Gym first to see it it is suitable, give the Park a ring on 871146 and ask to have a look around first. 

 

 

Sunday Cinema Club

The Cinema Club for children and young people with a disability will usually be held on the last Sunday afternoon of each school holiday.  

Children will pay £3.80 and carers will go free.  Membership cards will be provided free.  Let Karen know if you are interested. 

For each holiday, we will not know which film is on until a few days before the event.  However, it is likely to be the top children's film on current release at the time. 

Our thanks to the Apollo Cinema for the help in organising the club.

All of us Afterschool Stay

An afterschool stay and play session for children with additional needs.
Come along to our stay and play session and have fun, with the opportunity to take part in a variety of wonderful sensory experiences.

Hindpool Children's Centre
Every Tuesday with Stacey and Laura
3.30pm - 5.00pm
Open to children aged 5 - 8 years

And it's free!  Please ring 829320 for more details.

Whats on in Furness and South Cumbria

Ulverston Leisure Centre is running weekly activity sessions on a Sunday from 1pm - 2pm for 5-16yr olds. Sessions cost £2.10 and siblings are welcome. Contact Ulverston Leisure Centre for more information Tel: 01229 584110 or click here

Kepplewray run activities all year round for people with a disability and their families and friends.  It's worth keeping an eye on their website to see if they have any events on.

If you know of any activities that are taking place please let us know so we can tell everyone else. Click here to email Lis details.

 Sports Clubs

 The Sports Development Team is here to help sports clubs and organisations become more inclusive of people with disabilities. Here are some of the benefits of becoming inclusive, that may encourage you:

• Increased membership
• More awareness in the community of the club and its achievements with an improved ability to attract sponsorship
• More people to become involved as volunteers. People with disabilities have many skills to share, often in areas where it is difficult to find a willing person, such as administration
• Professional and personal development of club members as they share new skills and knowledge about their sport with the new members with disabilities
• Better facilities that are safer and more user friendly

With some flexibility, imagination and a little effort, your club could enjoy some of these benefits.  If you want some help to become more inclusive, contact Derek on 407575. 

The English Federation of Disability Sports (EFDS) has just produced a free booklet to help clubs to engage with disabled people. 

Visit the EFDS website here or download the document as a pdf file here.

Cumbria Sport Equity Alliance (SEA)

The Cumbria Sport Equity Alliance (SEA) is a county forum that brings together a wide range of partners who have a common interest in ensuring that disabled people, women and girls and black and minority ethnic communites in Cumbria are given the opportunity to participate in sport by removing barriers, widening opportunities and increasing choice.

The Cumbria SEA has produced its first quarterly newsletter to give a round-up of what is currently happening within the county as well as sharing information and good practice and celebrating the successes within disability sport and sport equity. 

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