Sport and Leisure
December 2013
Please circulate within your teams and wider networks to reach as many visually impaired people as possible. Thank you.
Contents
Christmas cards
RNIB
Guide Dogs
British Wireless Fund for the Blind
National talking newspapers and magazines
Merton Vision
Fighting Blindness
Ice Skating (Natural History Museum)
‘Garden in a Box’
British Athletics
Tate Britain
DSC Community Clubs
Extant
London Bubble Theatre Company
Clyde Sea Lochs and Islands keel boat
YMCA Wimbledon Fitness Classes
Southcoast Stargazers
Christmas cards
Information below is taken from the November edition of The Monthly Despatch CD from Infosound. To request a free copy call 03000111555 or email .
RNIB
RNIB offer tactile Christmas cards with tactile images on the front and a Braille message inside.
Call 03031239999,
Email , or
Visit (You can send free e-cards from their website too)
Guide Dogs
Offer cards and wrapping paper.
Call 08453711371 or email .
British Wireless Fund for the Blind
Offer a selection of card packs.
Call 01622754757 or email .
National talking newspapers and magazines
Offer a selection of card packs.
Call 01435866102 or email .
Merton Vision
Offer a range of Christmas cards, calendars and candles.Call 02085405446 or email .
Fighting Blindness
Offer a range of Christmas cards.
Call 01280821334 or email .
Ice Skating (NaturalHistoryMuseum)
31 October 2013 to 5 January 2014, 11am to 10.50pm.
Contact the Natural History Museum to book tickets.
‘Garden in a Box’
Thrive has a limited number of gardening boxes for sale, all packed by MPs, councillors and delegates at the Conservative Party Conference this year. Each box contains a seed tray and grid, bottle-top waterer, Peta Easi-grip scissors, small bag of compost, three packets of seeds, latex-free gloves and Thrive's Gardening Independence Guide. Selling at £23 (+ £7 P&P) money raised will go towards helping people with disabilities at Thrive. Each box has information about what to do and the signature of who packed the box.
Call 01189885688.
British Athletics
British Athletics are promoting a series of Talent Introduction Days for aspiring disabled athletes to train with specialist coaches across the Paralympic athletics events – sprints, ambulant throws, seated throws and wheelchair racing.
- Sunday 26 January, Chelmsford
- Sunday 9 February, Loughborough
- Sunday 16 February,Sheffield
- Sunday 16 March, Bath
Call Katie Jones,on07912070624 or .
Tate Britain
Tate Britain offer free audio description sessions.Every third Monday of the month from 11am-12.30pm. The next session is 16 December exploring the new exhibition Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm. Sighted escorts and guide dogs are welcome.
Please meet us on the day at 10.45amat the Manton Information desk. Call 02078878888.
DSC Community Clubs
The purpose of the Community Clubs is to provide access to exciting, enjoyable and safe, two-hour sporting sessions on a weekly basis for people with any disability aged 11-25. This opportunity allows young adults to experience Paralympic and multi-sports including athletics, archery, fencing, sitting volleyball, goalball, judo and many more.
- Wandsworth: Tuesday 5 -6:30pm at BatterseaSC
- Westminster: Thursday 4:30-6pm at Little VeniceSC
- Islington: Saturday 11am-1pm at Sobell LC
- Hillingdon: Saturday 1:45 -3:15pm at QueensmeadSC
- Southwark: Saturday 3-5pm at Camberwell LC
For further information contact Alan Whetherly, the Club Development Manager, 020 7021 0973 or email .
Extant
Extant are running a new dance project called IDance, for blind and partially sighted people, to take place in January and February 2014. They are offering 3 dance workshops (10 sessions for each dance), culminating in a public performance at the end of February. Workshops are free and 12 spaces available on each.
One workshop will be Contemporary (physical theatre dance), another will be Street Dance. The third dance style is still to be decided. Support will be available at the actual events and collection from meeting points at local points of public transport will also be arranged. The dance studios are being selected for their accessibility. Dance tutors are highly trained with good experience of teaching blind and partially sighted people.
To register interest or call 02078203737.
London Bubble Theatre Company
A community based organisation in Rotherhithe, running for over 40 years. As part of their work, they run a number of evening groups for all ages and all abilities, led by professional artists. The groups offer the opportunity to explore making theatre and telling your own story through many different approaches. No experience is necessary and everyone is welcome.
Call Lucy on 020 7237 4434, email or visit
Clyde Sea Lochs and Islands keel boat
2014 Clyde Sea Lochs and Islands keel boat introduction for visually impaired people flotilla week (12 -19 April 2014).
Keel boat sailing for visually impaired people, comprising of a flotilla week with 4 or 5 chartered yachts for up to 25 visually impaired participants will commence from Largs marina on the Clyde estuary in April 2014.
Cost £215 per participant.
Visit
YMCA Wimbledon Fitness Classes
Cost £1 per session.
If you would like to take part in this great opportunity please Call YMCA Wimbledon on 02085429055 or email .
Southcoast Stargazers
Visit a new page for visually impaired peopleastrostorey.weebly.com/via-southcoaststargazers.html.
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