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St Peter's Primary School, Henfield are the winners of the Horsham District Primary Schools Championships for this season after managing to maintain their unbeaten status over the course of three full meetings.
The strong start to the Horsham Summer League continued with the Introductory and Intermediate team competitions gettng underway in fine style last night. The Introductory section opened with two well contested matches that both ended up with 4-1 scorelines. Dani and Antonio Lozzi were both late sign ups to the league but wasted no time in adding their Italian flair to the proceedings.
Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre is promoting its next Discovery Day taking place on Sunday 27th May for the benefit of young disabled people and their families. The day is packed with a whole host of sporting and artistic opportunities so there is something for everyone.
Horsham Junior Baseball Club has announced the programme for its opening day on Saturday 19th May at Ingfield Manor School to put the frustration of the date delay caused by the recent heavy rains.
The 2012 Sussex School Games is keen to recruit event makers to help create an inspiring and safe event for the county’s young people on Tuesday 3 July at K2 Crawley. Sussex’s mini-Olympics, will see competition finals in 13 sports for East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove.
There will be a FREE football taster session for 14-19 year olds taking place at Upper Beeding Sports Hall on Friday 18th May from 8-9pm. This will be followed by a six week programme from Friday 25th May to Friday 29th June where qualified football coaches will be running some fun football sessions under a scheme called Sportivate.
Following a successful start to the Horsham Summer League on Wednesday night with the Advanced Division it was the turn of the Intermediate and Introductory divisions to kick-off on the Thursday night at Greenway with individually based competitions. Youngsters James Arnold and Scott Covey lapped up the opportunity by winning the two respective competitions thus posting themselves as players for the rest to beat as the league progresses.
The Advanced Division of the Horsham Summer League got underway with an excellently contested singles competition. Ex county player Steve Pound showed he's still got a few tricks up his sleeve by winning the evening beating an on-form Mark Weston in the final by 3 sets to 1.
The Steyning Festival Sports Day is being held on Monday 4th June, 11am-4pm. Taking place on the Steyning Memorial Field it will encourage people to enjoy a wide range of different sports within the Steyning community. A Mini Olympics event is being organised by Horsham Leisure Link and Steyning Athletic Club from 11am - 2.30pm.
Leisure Link has announced is June half term and summer holiday programmes. With two Bank Holidays in half term this year the programme during that period is quite a small one but things will be back in full flow come the big summer holiday with a range of sport, excursion, outdoor pursuit and art opportunities to put boredom at bay.
Around 50 players of all levels are looking to play in the Horsham Summer Fun League which starts this week at Greenway School and will be contested in three divisions - Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced.
Local baseballers are having to show patience a jove as the great British weather continues to bite back after a kind winter and a near tropical early spring for the sports calendar. Horsham Junior Baseball Club has had to put its opening day back from 5th May to 19th May when they're hoping summer will have returned.
This year Linkfield Netball Club is holding its annual charity day on Saturday 16th June at Lingfield Notre Dame Senior School in Lingfield. The event is a 12 hour netball day running from 9am until 9pm.
Castlewood School, Southwater and St Andrew's, Nuthurst lead the A and B divisions respectively of the BBHLC Primary Schools Football League after the latest meeting on Friday 27th April.
Two of the country's strongest men broke a longstanding record and performed feats of strength in Horsham recently under the watchful eye of Leisure Link's very own Paul Taylor who was asked to be the judge and commentator for the day by Peter Sutton from local company PMW.
The first tournament of the 2012 Junior Golf Challenge was held at Horsham Golf and Fitness during the easter holidays and there were some superb shots played that contributed to some fantastic scores. Henry James-Gibson and Kai Stevens were victorious in their age groups but they were closely followed by the rest of the junior golfers.
Streetsporters from the Horsham area will convene on Horsham Park on Sunday 19th August for the Horsham Skatejam 2012. Organiser Sam Richardson enthused, "We've had some excellent skatejam events before and I've every confidence that, weather permitting this will be another great spectacle giving local streetsporters a chance to show their skills."
Horsham Leisure Link has successfully started up an athletics programme for young disabled people in the Horsham area. 10 youngsters have started attending the sessions running in the stadium at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre under the guidance of Head Coach, Dave Ingram, and his team of assistant coaches and support workers.
Horsham Volleyball Club put its name on the map yesterday by winning a tournament at Southwick Leisure Centre. The team won a series of matches to achieve this and more detail about trhe feat is expected to follow shortly.
Horsham Youth Cycling Club is celebrating the news that it has been successful in applying for a £9400 to further develop its programme.
Horsham Volleyball Club has booked more Collyers Sports Hall midweek session dates and the club still welcomes more new players to join in to enjoy this thrilling Olympic sport.
Young disabled people from Sussex interested in athletics are being invited to a 'Athletics Talent Introduction Session' being held at Lewes Athletics Track on May 16th between 6-8pm.
From 5th May Shaolin Kung Fu will be running sessions for children aged 5+ every Saturday 11.15am – 12.15pm at Pavilions in the Park. The first class a child attends is free and the subsequent fee is £4 a session. Parents are welcome to stay with the children if they want to.
The Breast Cancer Care Pink Ribbonwalk is seeking walkers and volunteers for its event at Petworth House on Saturday 26 May 2012
Coach Sam Tichband's latest session at Horsham Youth Cycling Club at Forest School, Horsham challenged children to take on ramps of different sizes and he's captured the fun on video camera.
The next three dates for North Sussex Adult Netball Tournaments have been set for Sundays 29th April, 27th May and 24th June. The tournaments will all be at K2 Crawley 4pm - 6pm and cost £20 a team.
Albion in the Community, the charitable arm of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club, is currently recruiting people (aged 16+) who may be interested in completing a Level 1 Exercise Studies Nationally Accredited Qualification. The course starts on April 23rd and runs from 10.00am-4.00pm over the course of 7 days at the brand new state of the art training facilities at the AMEX Stadium.
Sussex County Cricket Club is inviting disabled people of all ages and family and friends to attend a fun day at the Probiz County Ground, Hove on Thursday 24th May. It promises to be a fantastic day with coaches, games, demo matches, ECB Cricket Factory, table cricket, face painting and much more on offer.
The table tennis event programme at K2 in Crawley keeps on building with a number of events coming up over the spring period. Certainly if TT competition is your thing you're in a land of plenty if you live in North Sussex or close by.
David Shoare, a Horsham cricket coach and enthusiast, has purchased the West Sussex Last Man Stands franchise. Last Man Stands is a new short form of the game and is hosting two open days to showcase it on Sunday 22 and 29 April at Tanbridge House School, Horsham.
A new term of summer term after-school activities at the Greenway Active Living Centre has been announced. Art and dance clubs are still on offer for the more artistically minded whilst on the sporty side there's more table tennis, netball, mini-football, cricket and basketball on the menu. And a reminder - the activities are not just for children from Greenway School itself.
Kids at West Chiltington Primary School fought out some excellent table tennis competition at the end of their school day recently. As the only team this year to put themselves forward for the Storrington Primary School Championships it was decided to play the event at their school and what was lacking in quantity was certainly made up for in quality.
The Horsham Sport Relief Mile is done and dusted but finally we've got round to publishing the Sport Relief photos that local photographer Oliver Wilks took on the day. Go to the gallery by clicking here
The Sportivate Horsham Girls Softball programme finished last Sunday with a battle of the sexes game. The girls aged 14 - 16 had received some excellent coaching from local coach Larry Rushin who had taught them how to throw, catch and hit the ball during the previous seven weeks and a game against some boys from Horsham Junior Baseball Club was arranged to see how much they had remembered.
Approximately 20 young people turned up at Warnham Village Hall on Monday 2nd April to make use of the mobile skate park that was set up to provide young people with something to do now that the Easter holidays had kicked in.
The first Easter Primary Schools Challenge Bowls Cup competition was held at Horsham District Indoor Bowls Club on Friday 30th March between Greenway School and Southwater School.
The Horsham Junior Baseball Club season training begun last week at Ingfield Manor School, near Billingshurst. HJBC is one of the largest baseball programmes in the UK suitable for boys and girls aged 6 to 16. All abilities are welcome for a fun and friendly sport where everyone gets to play. Come for the fun and score a home run!
Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre's Primary Schools Football League is well underway in both its year 3 and 4 section and its year 5 and 6 one. Billingshurst lead the pack at the younger age range and Castlewood and St Andrew's School (Nuthurst) lie in top spots of Groups A and B respectively.
Horsham Joggers and Horsham Lions organisations are combining to stage a Horsham 10K Race on Sunday 20th May in aid of charities the Motor Neurone Disease Association and St Catherine's Hospice. The race will start and finish at Horsham Rugby Club and also involves a junior 2K fun run.
Henfield Heat Basketball Club is celebrating the news it has just received from Sport England that its Small Grants bid of over £5000 has been successful.
HDC is set to help organise a launch event for the new mobile youth provision vehicles on Thursday 19th June, 6.30pm onwards at Pulborough Recreation Ground, Pulborough (subject to Parish Council agreement). The Leisure Link team is expected to arrange a range of sports for this event.
Team Fusion won the latest North Sussex Adult Netball Festival at K2 Leisure Centre, Crawley on Sunday in glorious weather. They prevailed against a strong challenge from Partridge Green and despite being held to a 6-6 draw from third placed Pulborough.
Over 600 runners turned out to make the Horsham Sport Relief Mile a great success on Sunday. On a beautiful late March day and with Horsham Park looking resplendent around 50 runners braved the challenge of doing six laps around the Park’s perimeter path, approximately three times as many did three and over 400 chose the one mile one lap option.
Plaistow and Kirdford School emerged victorious at the Horsham District Primary Schools Tag Rugby Competition on Tuesday as they saw off competition from 17 other teams to be crowned champions. In a high quality final they narrowly beat Colgate School by three tries to two.
St Peter's School, Henfield is proving a strong pacesetter in the Horsham District Primary Schools Basketball League. They extended their unbeaten run into double figures courtesy of some slick play and sharp shooting, although Southwater remain hard on their heels, with them also mirroring their first meeting results profile.
The waiting is nearly over, the Horsham Sport Relief Mile is ready to go. Over 600 runners have pre-booked to make the event a sell-out and no doubt many of them are making final adjustments to their costumes as you read.
As the summer term approaches Leisure Link cricket guru John Burroughs has announced some changes to the programme of primary school cricket competitions, so if you're in this mix take note!
Billingshurst Primary School won the Billingshurst Area Primary Schools Table Tennis Championships last Friday at Billingshurst Leisure Centre. Their A team won the matchplay event after holding off a stiff challenge from Wisborough Green's A team. Wisborough Green will take consolation from one of their teams winning the schools event.
There is great anticipation for the next meeting of the Horsham District Primary School Basketball League at Broadbridge Heath this coming Friday after a well contested first meeting just over a week ago. St Peter's Henfield have set themselves up as the team to beat after an unbeaten start but there are a number of other teams in hot pursuit. Bring it on!
Wheels for Wellbeing sessions are set to commence at the Inclusive BMX Track for young people with disabilities. Sessions will be starting next Saturday and running every second and fourth Saturday of the month thereafter.
Horsham Volleyball Club used one of their Collyers team training nights to stage a friendly against an Eastbourne team. Scores were 23-25, 25-23, 25-18 and 25-21 in Horsham's favour evidencing how the team improved as the game went on.
Tonight's Netball B Tournament was a well contested affair at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre involving three mini-competitions that were won by strong All Saints, Holbrook and Greenway teams.
The next deadline for applications to the Set 4 Success scheme which operates in the Horsham District to help talented young sportspeople to achieve their dream with financial support falls on the 1st April.
Loxwood Primary School fought off strong opposition to win overall team event of the annual Billingshurst Primary Schools Swimming Gala this afternoon at the village's leisure centre. Wisborough Green achieved runners-up spot, Billingshurst came third, St Mary's Pulborough fourth and Rudgwick fifth.
The fourth Sussex Table Tennis Circuit of the 2011-12 season took place this Saturday 10th March at K2, Crawley and Horsham father and son, Steve and Dan Pound, were amongst a number of Horshamites who figured strongly in the development level event.
Players from three schools - Billingshurst, Rudgwick and Wisborough Green - will contest the annual Billingshurst Area Primary Schools Table Tennis Championships this coming Friday at Billingshurst Leisure Centre. Four teams of four will fight it out in the matchplay and three teams of a similar number will do likewise in the skills section.
Five schools - Wisborough Green, St Mary's Pulborough, Billingshurst, Rudgwick and Loxwood - are primed and ready for the Billingshurst Primary Schools Gala later today at Billingshurst Leisure Centre. May the best team win!
Horsham District Council's Community Dance Officer, Emily Williams, is set to work in partnership with Horsham YMCA to run two days of street dance on 2nd and 11th April in the Easter holidays at the YMCA's Gorings Mead facility.
Children with disabilities at Manor Green Primary School in Crawley have been receiving table tennis taster sessions as part of a Horsham Table Tennis Club school-link project funded by the Accentuate scheme and practically supported by Horsham Leisure Link.
St Peter's Primary School, Henfield proved to be the pacesetters at the first meeting of this year's Horsham District Primary Schools Basketball League at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre tonight. Last season Henfield fielded two relatively young teams that took a few bashings but their persistence and determination has clearly paid off as they've now come of age with avengeance!
A new set of primary aged netballers from the area will convene at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre for the Horsham Primary School Netball B Competition next Wednesday, 4-6pm.
All Saints School, Horsham are this year's Horsham Primary Schools Swimming Team champions after seeing off the challenge of seven other schools at a well contested gala earlier this week. Indeed teamwork was the backbone of their success for whilst they didn't win any of the individual races they dominated the relays winning four out of five and coming second in the one they missed out on.
The West Sussex Schools Table Tennis Association is running a three-day Easter Table Tennis Camp at Forest School, Horsham on Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th April. The camp will be led by West Sussex Schools Coach Martin Jezisek supported by a team of assistant coaches and sparrers and will cater for players of all levels.
Volleyball England has been singing the praises of Horsham Volleyball Club after the club's recent achevement in gaining a £9,300 grant from the Sport England Small Grant scheme to grow and develop its provision. The governing body is hoping the success will inspire other volleyball clubs up and down the country to put together project plans to get similar funding awarded.
The npower Big Dribble is a fantastic opportunity for the Great British public to get into the Olympic spirit as hockey comes to a town near you! Starting in Edinburgh on 15th April, a hockey roadshow will be touring the country over 18 days giving people of all ages and abilities the chance to pick up a stick and take part.
Eight schools - Castlewood, Southwater, Rusper, Leechpool, Shelley, Northolmes, All Saints and St Andrew's, Nuthurst - are primed to contest the Horsham Primary Schools Swimming Gala at Horsham Pavilions tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon.
The Horsham Primary School Basketball League starts this coming Friday at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre, 4-6pm on the multcourts. There will be three meetings for the six schools to play over March and April. This is the first time the league has been run just in spring time, a decision taken in view of severe winter weather affecting the competition severely over the last couple of seasons.
Calling all youth basketball talent. The South East Regional Trials are a great opportunity to strut your stuff. They're running just down the road at K2 Crawley so are handily located for youngsters in the Horsham District.
The Sussex Golf Partnership is campaigning to get people to try the sport of golf by offering low cost taster sessions around the county. Check out the website www.sussexgolfpartnership.org to see where your nearest opportunity is.
Sussex's high performance table tennis training programme, the Sussex Junior Elite Centre, has moved to Horsham on Monday nights at Greenway School, home of Horsham Table Tennis Club.
Schools Set to Go Ping
Kingslea and Heron Way primary schools in Horsham are celebrating after both receiving news that they have been successful in securing funds from the Sport England Small Grants scheme to each install two outdoor table tennis tables in their playgrounds as part of projects to increase sports participation among their pupil populations.
Horsham Table Tennis Club and Horsham Leisure Link staff will support both schools to deliver their projects successfully.
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With spring now approaching the Horsham area is looking ahead to a summer of tennis. Andy Murray and Wimbledon will be on the minds of many but local schoolchildren in school years 3 and 4 (7-9 year olds) have bigger fish to fry; they’ll be concentrating on the 'Road to Eastbourne' competition.
Sports Structures Ltd is a company that coordinates various sport governing body coach award qualifications all over the country and they're advertising a range of forthcoming courses in the south-east (including a number in Sussex), including volleyball, basketball, multiskills and handball.
Recruitment for the Horsham Sport Relief Mile is going strongly with currently 494 runners signed up for the event which will take place in Horsham Park on Sunday 25th March.
Horsham Volleyball Club has just received the great news that it's been successful in gaining a £9,300 funding award from Sport England's Small Grant scheme.
Jolesfield and Upper Beeding primary schools contested the Henfield/Steyning Area Primary Schools Competition last week at Henfield Leisure Centre. The Beedies won the matchplay competition and the Jollies the skills event title in an afternoon of great fun and sportsmanship.
13 youngsters from Horsham Youth Cycling Club enjoyed a trip to Leith Hill near Dorking this morning supervised by two coaches and two parents.
Horsham Leisure Link teamed up with the Little Kickers coaching organisation to provide a drop-in session of sporty activity for the Horsham Children and Family Centre off Harwood Road in Horsham yesterday. Children benefitting ranged from 2-4 years.
The Holbrook Club is hosting a night of 'Motown Magic' led by JD 'The Soul Machine' on the night of Friday 23rd March. Motown disco and dancing throughout is on the menu.
The Sussex Parallel Youth Games will run at The Triangle, Burgess Hill on Wednesday 13th June. The event is for disabled children and players are recruited from the county’s special schools.
Horsham has been successful in its bid to host a Paralympic Flame Celebration in the run up to the Paralympic Games. Horsham District Council put this bid together with the West Sussex Ahead of the Game consortium to provide a chance to celebrate the Olympics in Horsham and the achievements of all the disability groups in the area. Horsham is only one of 33 places to receive this honour.
Holbrook School will go through to represent the area in year 5/6 netball at the School Games at K2 Crawley on 3rd July as they won the top group of the competition last night. All Saints, Billingshurst and Southwater Junior Academy also did well to win their respective lower band groups to make for an excellent spectacle of High Fives netball on a beautiful early spring evening at BBHLC.
The Partridge Green Netball Team was the toast of the village on Sunday as they triumphed over six other teams from Sussex to win the latest North Sussex Adult Netball Tournjament at K2 Leisure Centre, led by HDC Leisure Link's Community Netbal Coach, Hannah Bacon.
The final meeting of the 2011/12 Horsham District Primary Schools Hockey League took place last Friday 24th February on the astroturf at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre. 18 teams from across the district took part in what was the third meeting since October. With promotion and relegation throughout the winter the final groups were extremely competitive and the increase in the standard of hockey was greatly evident.
Brighton University is hosting a tchoukball Level 1 Coach Award on Saturday 26th May.
Upper Beeding and Jolesfield primary schools will contest the Steyning Area Primary Schools Table Tennis Tournament on Wednesday afternoon at Henfield Leisure Centre. They both have two teams in each of the matchplay and skills sections to the event.
The Horsham District Primary Schools Netball League will conclude this Wednesday at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre with the winner from the top group expected to represent the area at the Sussex School Games event at K2 Leisure Centre on 3rd July.
K2 Leisure Centre, Crawley is fast becoming the biggest table tennis competition point in the country under the guidance of Horsham TT enthusiast Steve Pound and his latest offering is a Sussex Development Circuit on Saturday 10th March for the benefit of young players of all abilities.
Horsham Leisure Link's Community Netball Coach, Hannah Bacon, has launched a new netball session for primary aged children (in school years 4,5 and 6) in partnership with Rudgwick Netball Club on Thursdays 5-6pm.
Southwater Junior Academy is the latest primary school to have pupils benefit from indoor bowls tasters provided by Horsham Indoor Bowls Centre as the club there continues its promotional effort following the launch of its new junior section.
Greenway School followed up their year 3 and 4 sportshall athletics triumph of two weeks ago by winning the year 5 and 6 competition at Collyers today. Their total of 233 points made them comfortable victors with Southwater Junior Academy coming in second with 188 points.
Following a positive first recreational session last night Horsham Volleyball Club's good week continued with a tremendously successful first team session tonight at Collyers Sixth Form in Horsham.
Horsham Volleyball Club's new community sessions programme at Collyers opened up promisingly tonight with the first session aimed at recreational level players.
Clemsfold House, near Broadbridge Heath, is the latest care home to join in with the Silver Pingers table tennis project that HDC's Leisure Link team is running in partnership with Horsham Table Tennis Club.
Forest School is celebrating the news that it has been successful to the tune of £9,300 with a bid to the Sport England Small Grants fund for the purpose of purchasing trampolines and developing opportunities for the sport on its facilities.
Horsham Joggers' latest Learn to Run programme has recruited over 30 participants. Learn to Run supports new or rusty runners to find their running feet and achieve their goals whether they be to get in better shape, work towards completing a marathon or just to get round Tescos quicker!
Fixtures for this Friday's third and final primary school hockey league have just been set and with four banded competition categories to be contested all of the 17 teams involved have something to aim for on Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre's astroturf.
Horsham District Council has produced a generic logo for use across the District by businesses and community organisers to help celebrate 2012.
Special Task Force is club for young adults aged 18+ is keen to recruit more members. It operates in the southern part of the Horsham District at venues in Steyning and West Chiltington and welcomes people with and without disabilities for excursions and workshops.
A number of Horsham area based secondary schools came so near but yet so far in trying to secure qualification to the regional round of the Center Parcs National Schools Badminton Championships.
An inclusive six week cheerleading course will commence this coming Wednesday evening at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre, targeting 8-15 year olds both with and without disabilities aged 8 to 15 years.
Dates and venues for the 2012 Junior Golf Challenge have been announced. Budding junior golfers of development level are invited to strut their stuff on courses at Rookwood, Cottesmore and Horsham Golf & Fitness.
Little Kickers classes run at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre on Sunday mornings from 9am to 9.45am, 10am to 10.45am, 11am to 11.45 am. Ages catered for range from 18 months to 6 years.
It's been another active half term for the Leisure Link team with most of its holiday programme sessions being well subscribed and enjoyed by those both receiving and delivering them.
The Horsham Sport Relief Mile will be about more than just the run...a fantastic line up of entertainments and attractions is being planned too for the Horsham Park based event on Sunday 25th March.
Fairtrade Fortnight is on its way, and to celebrate Fairtrade Horsham have organised a free cycle ride on Saturday 3rd March.
Active Solutions, a local sports development agency which specializes in workplace health, is promoting the next Sussex Business Tournament in the sport of table tennis All abilities are welcome for a fun, friendly, tournament. The tournament is being held in Crawley but is open to all organisations in Sussex.
The Horsham Junior Baseball Club season is scheduled to re-start in the week commencing 26th March. Registrations are now open to girls and boys aged 6-16 of any ability. For a Registration Pack please email your request to louiseh@horshambaseball.co.uk or visit the website www.horshambaseball.co.uk
Horsham Youth Cycling Club's Head Coach, Sam Tichband, has been capturing the fun of the Saturday morning sessions he's been running on a new head camera he has recently purchased.
Horsham Table Tennis Club has welcomed a strengthening of its Sri Lankan connection with the arrival of Nadini Abeygunawardana, the girlfriend of the club’s topgun player Amila Thilakarathne.
94 children from six schools made for the biggest and best ever Horsham area primary schools table tennis team championships at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre yesterday. With a skills event and the matchplay events being run in four banded sections there was plenty of opportunity for success to be shared around and Heron Way, Warnham and Kingslea schools were the chief beneficiaries of that fact.
Greenway School won the school year 3 and 4 sports hall athletics competition run at Collyers Sixth Form College, Horsham on Thursday. In an exciting event they pipped Warnham, Rudgwick, Castlewood and Southwater primary schools.
Kingslea School (Horsham) and Southwater Junior Academy contested a fantastic badminton festival at Horsham and Arun Badminton Club's facility at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre. Kingslea won out but fun was the even bigger winner in the morning's proceedings!
Leisure Link Community Multisport Coach Fred Bridges won't be seen around the Horsham District for the next couple of weeks as he's on duty with the England Physical Disabilities Cricket Team for their tour to Dubai to take on their Pakistani counterparts.
Horsham Indoor Bowls Club provided taster sessions to pupils from Castlewood Primary School on Friday 27th January and 3rd February, in an effort to encourage youngsters to join their new junior section.
Another Sussex Table Tennis Circuit tournament was completed on Saturday 4th February at K2 Crawley. Thirty-four kids competed for medal positions in Band A and B events in both the morning and afternoon and there was lots of Horsham-related interest at the business end of most of the events.
Primary school netballers braved freezing conditions at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre last night in the second league meeting. St Peter's, Cowfold has a great night to win the top group. Rudgwick, Jolesfield and Plaistow and Kirdford schools will also be pleased with their efforts for winning their divisions. Still all to play for at the last meeting scheduled for 29th February!
Horsham Table Tennis Club is looking to attract new players to the sport through a new, fun summer league which it will run at its base at Greenway School in Horsham in the months leading up to the London Olympics.
Horsham Volleyball Club is hoping to spread its net further by providing two new and additional sessions in the town at Collyers Sixth Form College.
Calling all existing and new pilates teachers! The ‘Introduction to Classical Matwork’ is the pilates foundation course that will teach candidates the beginner mat order with the appropriate transitions...and one is about to run in West Sussex.
Horsham Table Tennis Club's Head Coach, Martin Jezisek, has been appointed West Sussex Schools Table Tennis Officer to service an exciting West Sussex-wide project.
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What do the London Games mean for us in Sussex? Use your extra day in this Olympic year to ‘Leap into Legacy’ and find out!
The final meeting of the Primary Schools Girls Football League was held on Friday 27th January and involved eight teams, the highest number at a meeting this season. The teams were split into two divisions depending on how many points they accumulated from the first tournaments. This meeting was made particularly interesting as a promotion and relegation section was added in half way through the tournament. Therefore every team involved still had it all to play for.
Horsham YMCA is expanding on its partnership with North Sussex Soccer Academy by helping them run their annual fun day football tournament in aid of Chase Hospice.
Horsham Leisure Link has received news that a number of its latest bids to Sportivate, the funding programme designed to target 14-25 year olds, have been successful.
Dance Challenge is seeking teams with routines to enter its national competition. Nearest competition to the Horsham District will be in Worthing so if dance is your thing this is a great chance for you and your friends to shine!
Tennis clubs in the Horsham area - including Horsham, Holbrook, Comptons and Billingshurst - are looking to link more schools in the Sussex LTA's Road to Eastbourne competition process which targets children in school years 3 and 4.
Start limbering up! The Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile is back – and it’s coming to Horsham! The town is set to host a Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile on Sunday 25th March, and needs local people to come together and show their support by entering now at www.sportrelief.com. As one of the UK’s biggest fundraising events, Sport Relief brings the entire nation together to get active, raise cash and change lives – so it’s time to dust off those trainers and enter right now.
Enable Me is a Sussex-based not-for-profit organisation encouraging greater disability awareness in the community, helping disabled people and volunteers, and build partnerships that lead to the advancement of inclusive services. The group has provided support to Horsham Leisure Link in the past and we are pleased to advertise their fundraising ball due to run on Saturday 18 February in Worthing
Horsham Table Tennis Club is rejoicing that the primary schools festival that it runs in partnership with Horsham District Council's sports development team has recruited to the point where no more teams can be accepted.
Team Fusion won the latest North Sussex Adult Netball Tournament at K2 Leisure Centre last Sunday. The Crawley based outfit won all their five matches including an 11-5 victory over second placed Partridge Green and a 7-1 roasting of third placed Pulborough.
Today's primary schools tag rugby practice competition at Collyers Sixth Form, Horsham was cancelled due to the day's deluge of rain.
Jump Rope UK is a business that specializes in demonstrating and teaching the sport of jump rope. It is looking to run a weekend day event next May 2013, which will be a festival to celebrate jump rope with schools all around the UK.
Horsham District Council is rolling out safeguarding training for all of its staff and volunteers that deal with children and vulnerable adults as part of their job. A number of Leisure Link and other community development staff received the first three hour workshop delivered in-house by safeguarding lead staff Clare Ebelewicz and Anna Camp.
Bluecoat Sports Health and Fitness Club, Christ's Hospital is promoting a free nordic walking taster sessions that will run on Saturday 28th January from their centre.
Albion in the Community is running a subsidised FA Level 2 Football Coach Award in Brighton for the benefit of unemployed people aged 19 and over.
A new kung fu operation has set up in Horsham. Shaolin Kung Fu is running Fridays 7.30 - 9.00pm at the Pavilions in the Park in Horsham and is targeting adults aged 12 and over.
Westlake House on Pondtail Road, Horsham is the latest residential care home to get the ping pong bug under HDC's Silver Pingers project. Seven of their residents participated using the equipment that Horsham Leisure Link staff imported for the morning.
The Horsham District Primary Schools Netball League started up again last night at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre with the first of its three meetings. Slinfold, Greenway, Holbrook and St Peter's Henfield won their groups and will all contest the top group at the next meeting but with two meetings remaining and promotion/relegation between divisions there's still chance for lots of teams to aspire for glory in the remaining meetings.
Dodgeball is on the up in Horsham. Horsham Junior Dodgeball Club was founded in 2008 with the support of Horsham Leisure Link and its qualified coaches have successfully introduced it to hundreds of children in school and community venues around the Horsham area.
Sportshall athletics coaching got started in in a number of local primary schools last week with Head Coach Dave Ingram and a number of Collyers sports students. January and early February are seeing an input of skill development for pupils in preparation for year 3/4 and year 5/6 competitions running at Collyers in February.
Well done to Billingshurst Primary School whose recent sporting exploits have got them into the sports pages of local newspaper The Resident.
Lots of primary schools will come together on the afternoon of Tuesday 24th January at Collyers Sixth Form to play a practice competition under the guidance of the college's sports students.
Are you lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender and looking for some support and something to do? West Sussex Youth Service has started two new groups for young people aged 13-18 years who are LGBT, one in the north of the county and one in the south.
Sport England and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced details of a new five-year youth and community sport strategy that will deliver on Lord Coe’s 2012 Games bid promise to inspire a generation to get involved in sport.
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DC Leisure is re-promoting its Friday Junior Table Tennis session which runs at Steyning Leisure Centre, 6.30-7.30pm under the tutelage of local coach Steve Denman.
Horsham Table Tennis Club's Monday and Tuesday coaching programmes got off to a great start to 2012 with the marketing support of Horsham Leisure Link.
Horsham Leisure Link, working with Horsham Junior Baseball Club, has tapped into Sport England's Sportivate funding source to support the organisation of a softball programme for girls aged 14-16 years at Southwater Leisure Centre. The programme will start on Sunday 12th February.
Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre is set to host another Discovery Day of activities for children with disabilities on Sunday 26th February.
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