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Active Sports

The Recreation Development Team provides advice and assistance to sports clubs, community groups and individuals from the Borough interested in the development of sport and recreation.

Branksome Recreation Ground - Poole Town Football club proposal

Focus

Focus Football is an exciting local sports initiative supported by a number of different agencies including the Leisure services, NACRO, Youth Services and Dorset Police. Opposite is a photo of one of the first representative teams for focus football in Poole. For more information please contact the Recreation Develeopment Team.

Below are some of the other ways in which the team are helping to shape community sports development in Poole through partnership and connecting people to active opportunities.

Active Dorset

Active Dorset is one of 49 County Sports Partnerships in England largely funded by Sport England to co-ordinate activity and sports programmes in Dorset. To find out more about community sports coaching as well as many other exiting sports development initiatives accross Dorset please click on the link above.

One of the many tasks for Active Dorset  is to get more people involved in physical activity and raise activity levels by 1% per annum, over the next few years, to reach the national 50% target by 2020. (Defined as participating in 30 minutes of moderate exercise five times a week - when we feel we are just beginning to get out of breath and still enjoying whatever it is we are doing).

'Active 3X30'

This is an exciting new development to help connect more people to active opportunities accross Bournemouth and Poole. Spearheaded by a team of exercise and health professionals in Bournemouth and Poole, local people will be able to access a varied programme of activities and education resources to start and stay being more active.

Part of this development is a new interactive web based portal where you can find out all you need to know about whats going on in your area from sports events to sports / activity clubs and exercise classes. Follow this link to find out more: active3x30.co.uk 

Your local gateway to a healthy future

Launch Event at Upton Country Park on Saturday 5th April (10-4pm)

Lot's of FREE activities to participate in all day long.

For more information please contact activehealthlink@poole.gov.uk or telephone 01202 261312

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Active Healthlink Network membership

'Together Creating Active Health Opportunities for Everyone to sustain better health and well being'

Are you a person or organisation who can play an active part in creating active health opportunities for Bournemouth and Poole. If so, register with us on the great new initiative by logging onto active3X30.co.uk  and become a network member by completing a short registration process.

Hamworthy Outdoor Education Centre

Our outdoor education centre is situated in Hamworthy Park and provides RYA dinghy sailing, RYA powerboat and British Canoe Union (BCU) kayak courses in the shelltered waters of Poole harbour.

The Centre is licensed by the Adventure Activities Licencing Authority (AALA) to provide the following activities;

• Watersports
• Climbing
• Caving
• Trekking

To find out more follow this link Hamworthy Outdoor Education Centre

*Concessionary prices are available on all activities through the Access to Leisure and Learning Scheme . Please contact the Recreation Development Team for more information.

Sports funding

The team is able to provide advice and support in identifying potential sources of funding for both capital and revenue sports and recreation projects. 

In conjunction with Poole Sports Council funds are available to talented sports people, sports clubs and coaches.

Local Grant Scheme

• Grants for Sports Clubs - funding of up to £500 is available to local sports clubs towards the cost of developing new sessions/events and equipment.
  
  To apply for funding, please download and complete the Sports Funding for Clubs Application Form.
  
  Grants to Talented Athletes - a grant of up to £250 is available to local athletes who demonstrate a high level of attainment in their sport.
  
  To apply for funding, please download and complete the Sports Funding for Individuals Application Form.
  

Increasingly the funding for sport and recreation is a major issue and at times complicated. There are many different organisations that fund clubs and individuals for many different reasons.

For further information please follow this link to funding on the Active Dorset website.

Further information on submitting funding applications is available from the Recreation Development Team.

Sports Clubs and Leisure Facilities

There are a wide variety of sports clubs and leisure centre facilities on offer to people that live within the Borough of Poole, catering for all ages and abilities.

The Poole Partnership and the active3x30 websites list many clubs and organisations.

Please try their organisations directory to find out about sports clubs near you.

In Poole we have many clubs and organisations that cater for older people. If you wish to find out more information, then visit the Poole Partnership  website and search through "older people".

School Sport

The Recreation Development Team works closely with the Local Education Authority and Poole School Sports Partnership to develop sport and physical activity opportunities for young people in particular through school club links, after school sports and the community sports coaching intiatives. For more information about Schools Sports Partnerships visit the Youth Sports Trust website.

Poole has one designated sports college. Please click on the link below to find out more.

Rossmore Community Sports College

 Volunteering in Sport and Recreation

There are many opportunities to get involved with sport on a voluntary basis in Poole. We can offer assistance to volunteers who wish to get involved as volunteer coaches and leaders.

This helps to ensure that all coaches working with young or vulnerable people are able to obtain appropriate coaching qualifications and necessary Criminal Records Bureau clearance.

Please be aware that there is a cost of attaining a criminal records disclosure.  The cost for all volunteers who register with us as volunteer coaches / leaders is as follows;

• £6.50 (plus £2.50 for recorded delivery) 

For more information please contact the Recreation Development team with the deatails at the top right-hand-side of this page.