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Summer Sports and Parks Activities 2015 Introduction FREE FOR ALL AGES TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL PRESENTS SUMMER SPORTS AND PARKS ACTIVITIES 2015 INTRODUCTION SPORTS & PHYSICAL ACTIVITY The Sport & Physical Activity Team aims to increase participation in sport and physical activity and work to improve the health and wellbeing of residents in the borough. The team has three main functions which relate to Partnership and Participation (including managing the leisure contract with GLL), Sports Development and Capital projects, which enhance and improve the borough’s sporting and leisure facilities. For more information on all our activities and programmes please contact [email protected] or visit our Facebook and Twitter pages: https://twitter.com/LBTHSportsTeam https://www.facebook.com/lbthsport PARKS Tower Hamlets has over 120 parks and green spaces for everyone to enjoy. Working in partnership, we have planned a summer of community events, sports courses and activities all detailed within the booklet. CONTENTS Sports and parks activity 3 A Day by the Seaside 13 calendar Summer Olympic Park Rides 14 Cardboard City 4 Mother & Daughter 11Years+ Try Athletics 5 Summer BMX 15 Summer Football Programme 6 Girls Get Active 16 (Vallance CSA) Female age 11-15yrs Summer Football Programme 7 Sports & Play Rugby Festival 17 (Wise Youth Trust) Sports Courses & 18 Sports & Play Festivals 2015 8 Taster Sessions Active Summer Fun Day 9 Victoria Park Day 20 Water Festival 10 Victoria Park Sports & 21 Healthy Living Day Sporting Carnival 2015 11 Contacts and Partners 22 Summer Basketball Camp 12 2 SPORTS AND PARKS ACTIVITY CALENDAR JULY AUGUST Monday 24 August Tuesday 25 August Monday 27 July Saturday 1st August Summer Olympic Park Cardboard City Victoria Park Day Rides – Mother & Mile End Park Children’s Victoria Park, Daughter 11 Years + Playground Crown Gate East Mile End Stadium 11am – 4pm 11am – 5pm Session 1: Monday 27 July to Wednesday 5 August 9.30am – 12noon Friday 31 July Sports and Play Festival Session 2: Try Athletics King Edwards Memorial 12.30pm – 3pm Mile End Stadium Park Monday 24 to Mon – Thurs 11am – 4pm Friday 28 August 9.30am – 2pm Summer BMX Fri 9.30am – 3pm Monday 10 August Water Festival Mile End Stadium Monday 27 July to Mile End Park Children’s Session 1 (5–7 yrs) Friday 28 August Playground 9.15am – 10.45am Summer Football 11am – 4pm Session 2 (8–10 yrs) Programme 11am – 12.30pm Atlee Centre, Thrawl Street Wednesday 12 August Session 3 (11–16 yrs) Sporting Carnival 1.30pm – 3pm Monday 27 July to Stepney Green Park Friday 28 August 11am – 4pm Monday 24 August Summer Football Girls Get Active Programme Monday 17 August to Whitechapel Leisure Centre Community Pitch, Old Friday 21 August 3.30pm – 5.15pm Bethnal Green Road Summer Basketball Camp Whitechapel Sports Centre Friday 28 August Monday 27 July to Juniors (8–11yrs) Sports & Play Rugby Friday 21 August 10am – 12noon Festival Sports Courses & Taster Female only (11yrs +) Millwall Park Sessions 12.30pm – 2.30pm 11am – 4pm Urban Adventure Base, Bethnal Green Gardens Wednesday 26 August Mile End Park Intermediate (11–16yrs) Sports & Healthy Living 12noon – 2pm Day Wednesday 29 July Seniors (16yrs+) Victoria Park – West Park Sports & Play Festival 2.30pm – 4.30pm Weavers Fields near V&A Playground 11am – 4pm Wednesday 19 August 11am – 4pm A Day by the Seaside Thursday 30 July Mile End Park Children’s Active Summer Fun Day Playground SEPTEMBER Mile End Park Children’s 11am – 4pm Monday 7, 14, 21, 28 Playground September 11am – 3pm Girls Get Active Whitechapel Leisure Centre 3.30pm – 5.15pm 3 FREE FOR ALL AGES Come and help build Mile End DATE: Park’s very own Cardboard City. Monday 27 July 2015 You provide the imagination and TIME: we will provide the materials. 11am – 4pm Make your very own house, den VENUE: or any building that you like. Mile End Park Children’s Playground, Locksley Street, E14 7EJ TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL PRESENTS CARDBOARD CITY For more information please contact Parks and Open Spaces on www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/parks or call 020 7364 2253 4 Come and join in! DATE: Learn all the disciplines of athletics: Monday 27 July – Friday 31 July sprints, endurance running, throws and VENUE: jumps. There will be a competition on Mile End Stadium, Rhodeswell Road, Friday 31 July. London, E14 7TW TIME: No need to pre book, just turn up. Monday – Thursday, 9.30am – 2.00pm Friday 9.30 – 3.00pm TRYTOWER HAMLETS ATHLETICS COUNCIL PRESENTS 2015 For more information please contact the Sports & Physical Activity Team on www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/sports or call 0207 364 2437 Park ria Har to rie ic rs V & T C ow s A er Hamlet 5 Try Athletics 2015 A5 Flyer.indd 1 12/05/2015 10:03 Tower Hamlets Sports Development DATE: For more details about session times DATE: Team and Vallance CSA are delivering Monday 27 July to Friday 28 August please contact Ade Abayomi: Monday 27 July to Friday 28 August fun football sessions for young people VENUE: 07956 462544 or email of 8-16 years VENUE: Attlee Centre, Thrawl Street, E1 6RT [email protected] Community Pitch, www.wise-youth.co.uk For details about session times contact; Derek Bennett: Old Bethnal Green Road, E2 6FQ Junel Uddin Senior Sports & Project Manager, 020 7364 2681/07951 203144 or email Derek Bennett: www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/football Tel: 0207 613 5309 [email protected] 020 7364 2681/07951 203144 or email facebook.com/lbthsport Mobile: 07956 835 811, www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/football [email protected] @LBTHSportsTeam [email protected] facebook.com/lbthsport www.vallancecsa.org.uk @LBTHSportsTeam SUMMERTOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL ANDFOOTBALL VALLANCE CSA PRESENTS SUMMERTOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL ANDFOOTBALL WISE YOUTH TRUST PRESENTS PROGRAMME 2015 PROGRAMME 2015 For more information contact the Sports & Physical Activity Team For more information contact the Sports & Physical Activity Team on www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/football on www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/football 6 VALLANCE CSA presents SUMMER FOOTBALL PROGRAMME 2015 A5 Flyer.indd 1 22/06/2015 11:57 TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL and WISE YOUTH TRUST presents SUMMER FOOTBALL PROGRAMME 2015 A5 Flyer.indd 1 22/06/2015 11:15 For more details about session times DATE: please contact Ade Abayomi: Monday 27 July to Friday 28 August 07956 462544 or email VENUE: [email protected] Community Pitch, www.wise-youth.co.uk Old Bethnal Green Road, E2 6FQ Derek Bennett: www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/football 020 7364 2681/07951 203144 or email facebook.com/lbthsport [email protected] @LBTHSportsTeam SUMMERTOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL ANDFOOTBALL WISE YOUTH TRUST PRESENTS PROGRAMME 2015 For more information contact the Sports & Physical Activity Team on www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/football 7 TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL and WISE YOUTH TRUST presents SUMMER FOOTBALL PROGRAMME 2015 A5 Flyer.indd 1 22/06/2015 11:15 FREE FOR ALL AGES Tower Hamlets Council presents Wednesday 29 July 2015 Sports & Play Festivals 2015. Come 11am – 4pm and join in – fun for all the family! Weavers Fields Valance Road, London E2 6HG Basketball, boccia, football, tennis, giant outdoor games, rounders, Wednesday 5th August 2015 athletics, face painting, children’s rides, 11am – 4pm coconut shy, arts & crafts, new age King Edwards Memorial Park curling, trampolining and much more… Glamis Road, London E1W 3TD SPORTS & PLAY FESTIVALS 2015 For more information please contact the Sports & Physical Activity Team on www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/sports or call 020 7364 2437 8 FREE FOR ALL AGES HAVE FUN AND BE HEALTHY! DATE: Come and join us for a day of fun Thursday 30 July 2015 activities in the park. Games, play TIME: activities, smoothie making, fruit kebabs, 11am – 3pm bouncy castle, coconut shy, fruit tattoos, VENUE: information stalls and much more. Mile End Park Children’s Playground, Fun for the whole family! Locksley Street, E14 7EJ TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL PRESENTS ACTIVE SUMMER FUN DAY For more information please contact Mile End Children’s Centre on 020 7364 7557 9 FREE FOR ALL AGES Come and join in the parks DATE: team to celebrate water. Monday 10 August 2015 Be prepared to get wet and TIME: bring a change of clothes. 11am – 4pm Some water guns will be VENUE: provided but you can bring Mile End Park Children’s Playground, your own. Locksley Street, E14 7EJ TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL PRESENTS WATER FESTIVAL For more information please contact Parks and Open Spaces on www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/parks or call 020 7364 2253 10 FREE FOR ALL AGES Tower Hamlets Council presents DATE: Sporting Carnival 2015. Come and Wednesday 12 August 2015 join in! TIME: Athletics, football, tennis volleyball, 11am – 4pm cycling, new age curling, trampoline, VENUE: climbing wall, giant outdoor games, giant Stepney Green Park, inflatables, arts & crafts, street dance, Redmans Road, London E1 Zumba, steel pans and much more! SPORTING CARNIVAL 2015 For more information please contact the Sports & Physical Activity Team on www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/sports or call 020 7364 2437 11 Mayor’s Cup 2014 Sponsors Brochure Tower Hamlets Council presents DATE: Summer Basketball Camp 17–21 August 2015 in partnership with Tower Hamlets Trojans Basketball Club at : SESSIONS: Whitechapel Sports Centre Juniors (8-11yrs) 10am-12pm & Bethnal Green Gardens. Female Only (11yrs+) 12.30-2.30pm Aimed at children 8+ Venue: Whitechapel Leisure Centre, 55 Durward Street, E1 5BA REGISTRATION Intermediate (11-16yrs) Qualifi ed coaches will be provided. 12noon-2pm Limited spaces available. Seniors (16yrs+) 2.30-4.30pm To book email Venue: Bethnal Green Gardens, [email protected] Braintree Street, E2 SUMMERTOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL BASKETBALL PRESENTS CAMP For more information please contact the Sports & Physical Activity Team on www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/sports or call 020 7364 3204 12 FREE FOR ALL AGES Attractions of the day: DATE: Donkey rides, arts and crafts, Wednesday 19 August 2015 Punch and Judy, children’s rides, TIME: sports, sand and water play, 11am – 4pm face painting, helter skelter, VENUE: trampolining and much more..
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