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team BEDS&LUTON – Supporting community sports clubs across Bedfordshire
Posted: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:27
The COVID-19 pandemic has and continues to provide a wide range of challenges for the sport and physical activity sector. Our small team at team BEDS&LUTON have been committed to supporting this community throughout this period.
We were delighted to see Sport England's prompt and appropriate response...
Cancer & Exercise Blog 4: Perspective & progress, Plus a bonus blog!
Posted: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:30
Work with team BEDS&LUTON to build your audience
Posted: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 12:24
Need to build your audience? Take a look at how Mount Pleasant Golf Club and teamBEDS&LUTON are working together to promote offers and opportunities to be active.
Capturing new members or users of your club can be very hard. In this day in age, promotion and advertising to the right audience is crucial...
Cancer and Exercise: First time for everything!
Posted: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:35
Click here for my last blog.
BLOG 3: Anxious visits to the gym, trying not to fall in the River Ouse and not being able to move my arms!
So at the time of writing this, it's about a month and a half after treatment has finished and I finally feel ready to test the water (literally)! I've been walking lots...
Cancer and Exercise: Exercise during chemo and bad table manners
Posted: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:31
Read my first blog here. *photo caption below, best to read the blog first!
BLOG 2: First Exercise during Chemo – Realisation, falling asleep at the dinner table & coming to terms with tiredness
I thought it would be important to add a little more context around how I felt during my treatment....
Adventure-based activities build resilience and confidence – the ideal preparation for the GCSE years, writes one head
Posted: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 15:39
Article taken from:
"Why should a dip in a cold lake help prepare our students for GCSEs?"
This question was put to me, in emphatic terms, by Year 9 students recently as we toiled uphill, soaked to the skin, at the end of the "jog and dip" challenge at Outward Bound Centre in Ullswater. I was too wet and...
Exercise and chemotherapy, what could go wrong?
Posted: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:04
BLOG 1: I little introduction to how I cope with exercise after cancer treatment
Having never blogged, lets see how this goes! With a story to tell and a purpose, now seems the perfect time to write about my journey through Testicular Cancer and getting back to doing the things I love.
Are you getting the right communications to your Inclusive members or users?
Posted: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:46
Club Matters top tips on inclusive communications:
The number of disabled people playing sport regularly has risen significantly, but barriers still remain. Right now, disabled people are half as likely to be taking part in sport compare to other groups. This means there is still a long way to go to improve...
First Ramadan Midnight Football Trophy 2018
Posted: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:16
We recently worked with Ciaran Alexander at Beds FA, Active Luton and Luton Council to support Beds FA to run the First Ramadan Midnight Trophy at Inspire Sports Village in Luton.
Over 10 teams entered from around Bedfordshire including teams from Luton and Bedford. Teams such as Luton Tigers, Luton United,...
teamBeds&Luton backs first ever Coaching Week
Posted: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 14:10
UK Coaching's Principles of Great Coaching announced
Research shows that coaching benefits over 9m people across the UK
Bedfordshire's County Sports Partnership shows its support of great coaching as part of the first ever Coaching Week, which launches today, Monday 4 June.
YMCA Bedfordshire Successfully Secure Sport England Funding
Posted: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:08
YMCA Bedfordshire have successfully secured funding from Sport England for the Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Fund.
The YMCA is a Christian charity seeking to serve the community through its extensive supported accommodation and resettlement work, recreational, educational, faith, schools...
Free Resources for Sports Clubs in Bedfordshire
Posted: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 14:55
Club Matters is Sport England's one stop shop for sports clubs. Club Matters provides free, convenient, practical resources to help you develop and run a sustainable club.
Who is Club Matters for?
Club Matters resources are for you if you;