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BMX Roadshow coming to East London next week!
Access Sport, in partnership with Chain Reaction Cycles, has launched a five day BMX Roadshow that will tour across five Olympic host boroughs during the February half-term next week. The individual events will offer free BMX coaching and mark the launch of a new BMX time-trial race series across the capital. The BMX Roadshow is part of Access Sport’s BMX Legacy Project to create a new wave of BMX
participation in London.
A day out at the races for BMX Legacy clubs
Sunday 21 January 2012 saw the GoRide BMX race series reach new heights. Hosted by BADBMX this day at the races was the first time out for many racers.
Intern Opportunities at Access Sport
There are currently three exciting opportunities for interns to join the team at Access Sport and learn about sport development first hand. The three roles are all based at our Bethnal Green office in the Olympic Host Borough of Tower Hamlets. Please click on the following links to learn more about each one and how to apply.
Newham Women's United nominated at first ever Asian Football Awards
Sophia Rashad, founding member of Newham’s Women United Association Football Club, has received a nomination at the first ever Asians in Football Awards.
Free Basketball Coaching Courses in East London
Newham Youngbloods, one of our partner clubs in East London, are looking for volunteers to help coaches run their basketball training sessions and matches, and are hosting free training courses over the February half term to train new volunteers.
The training courses include:
Access Sport selected to run SportMATE
Access Sport have been selected by Pro Active East London to run SportMATE, an innovative project to get more disabled young people playing sport. The project was piloted successfully in North London by the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation using funding from Capital FM’s Help a London Child fund.
BMX Legacy Project boosted by new track funding!
Access Sport is delighted to announce that funding has been secured for a new track in Tower Hamlets and the renovation of the BMX track in Waltham Forest that are central to the BMX Legacy project.
Barclaycard and GSK kick-off the Access Sport Business Mentoring Programme
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The Access Sport Business Mentoring Programme is an innovative new initiative that matches teams of corporate mentors with community sports clubs. The objective of the programme is to use the skills, expertise and experience of corporate employees to help accelerate the development of the clubs that the charity supports in areas of growth, sustainability and youth development. In return the employees from partner companies get rich experiential |
Newham and Essex Beagles Disability Athletic Club
Newham and Essex Beagles Disability Athletic Club held their fourth session on Tuesday as part of our Disability Legacy Project. The club is hosted by Brampton Manor Academy and is open to all secondary school aged pupils in the London Borough of Newham.
Forest Flyerz off to a Flying Start
After the hugely successful coaching disability hockey training that was put on for volunteers of Forest Flyerz hockey club, the club started their regular weekly sessions last Tuesday.
Four new members were welcomed into Walthamstow Academy, and they were taught skills such as dribbling in a straight line, stopping the ball, turning whilst dribbling and shooting.
