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The Tower Hamlets youngsters are featured on the back cover of this week’s East End Life, celebrating the successes in the London Youth Games.
Months of training paid off as they took overall Silver is Slalom and Bronze in sprint. Read more about our success.
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SLALOM |
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| Junior Female | Honor | Dixon | 7th in Final |
Tower Hamlets Team Silver |
| Junior Male | Ross | Dixon | Bronze Madal | |
| Senior Female | Gabriella | Leoni | 4th in Final | |
| Senior Male | William | Walker | Silver Medal | |
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SPRINT |
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| Lightning Female | Alexandra | Tribe | Silver Medal |
Tower Hamlets Team Bronze |
| Lightning Male | Ross | Dixon | Silver Medal | |
| Cirrus Junior Female | Emma | Haskey | 5th in heat | |
| Cirrus Junior Male | Michael | Watson | 6th in Final | |
| Cirrus Senior Female | Esther | Graham | 6th in Final | |
| Cirrus Senior Male | William | Walker | 6th in Final | |
| Reserves | |
| Louis | Officer |
| Isla | Hammond |
| Connor | Millen |
| Louis | Wheatley |
Thanks to the dedication of the entire team including the reserves for all the hard work during training this year. Well done to those individual competitors for such a great effort. We are all very proud of you and you are an inspiration to the Youth Club.
A group of twenty Magistrates, Court Staff and Youth Offending Team members from the South West London Courthouses will be training and rowing the Great River Race. The brave group have a number of members who have never step foot on a row boat before!
They are doing it for the fun and camaraderie of rowing together and generously to raise money for us at Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre.
Please consider sharing their fundraising page and perhaps making a donation yourself: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/SWLLJA
Disabled people in Tower Hamlets will have more opportunities to get involved in sport after Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre received £108,875 of funding over three years from Sport England’s Inclusive Sport fund.
The centre is one of 44 projects across England that will benefit from £8.06 million of National Lottery investment from Sport England to open up more opportunities for disabled people to play sport.
Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre is a local charity, started in 1976, for the community in Tower Hamlets. It helps to develop the potential in young people through providing outdoor and adventure activities.
The centre will use its funding to deliver regular coaching sessions and programmes in adventure activities for people with disabilities. The money will help recruit an inclusion coordinator, train staff and help with purchasing specialist equipment to help people with disabilities take on challenges in outdoor adventure. Eventually the aim is to open a water sports and adventure activities club for people with disabilities.
Centre Director, Mike Wardle, said: “We are over the moon and so excited to be receiving funding from Sport England’s Inclusive Sport Fund. It means a great deal to the centre, the community and the borough. It will help children, young people and adults in the local area and beyond access outdoor sport in a safe and challenging environment. The centre wants to use the money to offer; canoeing and kayaking, orienteering, sailing and rowing to the disabled community”.
Sport England Director of Insight, Lisa O’Keefe, said: “We are delighted to be able to help Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre provide more opportunities for disabled people to give sport a go. Record numbers of disabled people now play sport and it’s thanks to organisations like this that we can continue to improve opportunities and make a real difference in communities.”
The number of disabled people playing sport regularly is on the rise. In December 2013, Sport England’s Active People Survey – an annual, in-depth measure of the nation’s sporting habits – revealed that a record number of disabled people in England now play sport each week. However, non-disabled people are still twice as likely to play sport as disabled people (39.2 per cent compared to 18.5 per cent), which is why Sport England continues to focus attention and investment to address this imbalance.
Sport England’s Inclusive Sport Fund supports programmes that aim to increase the number of disabled people playing sport. Since the fund launched, £17.1 million has been invested in 88 projects that make sport a viable lifestyle choice for disabled people.
As well as funding disability sport programmes, Sport England also funds equipment. In addition to the £8.06 million announcement, Sport England also recently awarded £1 million to 141 clubs across England to help them buy equipment to open up sport to disabled people.
For more details about the project at Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre, please contact Mike Wardle on 020 7481 4210 or mike.wardle@shadwell-basin.org.uk
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Ever fancied having a go at Kayaking or Climbing, but always thought those things happened far away?
Well, dream no longer, because throughout 2014 Shadwell Basin is offering sessions for adults on Saturdays right in the centre of London.
Come on your own or bring a group of friends to kayak on Shadwell Basin, or scale the heights of our climbing wall and High Ropes Course on the banks of the Thames.
Choose from Kayaking in the morning or High Ropes in the afternoon, or stay for the whole day. Sessions cost £25 each per person.
To book, contact us by calling 020 7481 4210 or emailing info@shadwell-basin.org.uk
We currently have an offer available through Living Social, for half day climbing / high ropes or kayaking sessions. These activities are running on selected Saturdays between March and July and cost only £15.00 per person. There are only a limited amount of vouchers available, to get in quick and book your session now!
Are you:
Aged 16 – 21
Unemployed
Not in training or education?
Start the new year with the possibility of a new career!
If you are interested in sport and adventure and want to try something new, then why not train with us as an outdoor activities instructor? You need to be committed, motivated and free from February – May 2014.
We are holding an open day for prospective applicants on Friday 31 January. If you would like further information please contact the Centre on 020 7481 4210.
Welcome to the new website of Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre!
As you see, this website is still a construction site! The scaffolding is still up, we are walking around with safety helmets and high-viz jackets, and working our socks of to make this an awesome new website with a lot of news and interesting features.
Until we are ready, our regular websites are still up and running, and there you will be able to find all the information you need.
Please go to www.Shadwell-Basin.org.uk for all information about our centre.
For information about the Youth project, please visit www.theBasin.org.uk.
We hope to see you again soon, at the centre or online!