Active Ashford
Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Welcome to the Active Ashford Community Sports Partnership
website.
The Active Ashford partnership is supported by some of the
biggest sporting names in the County who have some form of link
with the area such as one of Britain's top athletes, runner Lisa
Dobriskey Olympic Gold Medal Winner cyclist Jamie Staff. Each
ambassador has their own web page and on that can be seen an
Exclusive interview.
Other pages on the site look at County and National Performers
who have links to the Borough as well as ways of obtaining
funding.
One of the major impacts of Active Ashford is to get more people
participating in physical exercise, a directory of places to do
this can be found as well as to clubs that have achieved the
Quality Standard Accreditation eg Clubmark.
Active Programmes(May 2009 - September
2009)
In May 2009, the Active Swim and Active
Together programmes were launched aimed at introducing and
delivering activities to under represented groups such as disabled
people, those with physical and learning disabilities, people from
low income families and adolescents.
The Active Swim scheme which consists of
offers such as entrance fees, car parking refunds, lessons for all
ages, leisure swims and the crèche at both the Stour Centre and
Tenterden Leisure Centre the uptake has seen many people from those
target groups taking up this fantastic opportunity.
Further groups and individuals who are
referred to the scheme will be phased in over the next year such as
GP referrals and particular primary schools.
The Active Together scheme as with the Active
Swim offers those under represented groups to take part in a
variety of sports and activities held at leisure facilities within
the Borough (Julie Rose Stadium, Stour Centre, Tenterden Leisure
Centre, Courtside/Pitchside and the Ashford skate park), the taster
sessions in dance, boccia, basketball, athletics, netball, tennis,
football, table tennis, table top cricket, parachute games,
archery, new age curling, bmx bikes and skateboards.
Jonathan a participant at the Julie Rose
stadium day said: “Very enjoyable it was nice to look around the
stadium and the staff were excellent and very much enjoyed the
whole day” and Steve said: “Very good especially the coaches that
taught us all, they were excellent”.
Managers of those clients said:
“It’s been a great opportunity to introduce
people to these activities and help with their confidence.
“Dave Rawling – Ashford Learning Disability Community Interest
Company
“A Brilliant morning it was lovely to see
everyone enjoy sport. I would love to see more people attend
and use facilities and promote sport in general.” Linda Priest –
Carer
Thanks to the Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust
(EKPCT) for the funding and the leisure providers Ashford Leisure
Trust, Serco, Ashford Borough Council and the coaches for assisting
with the Active schemes during the summer of 2009.
Navigating around the website
The Active Ashford website is easy to browse and navigate to
locate the information required on a range of subjects from club
information to the latest news stories on courses and events.
Ashford Borough Council, Civic Centre, Tannery Lane, Ashford TN23 1PL
Telephone: 01233 330232 Email: activeashford@ashford.gov.uk
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