Multi-sport sessions for 15-21 year olds

Sessions will launch on Monday 11 August taking place from 6pm until 8pm and they are free to attend! Oxford United Football Club will deliver the sessions, which will have a football focus. However, to encourage young people to try a new sport and broaden their horizons, new and exciting sports will also be introduced along the way.

Venues are:

  • Monday – Sunnymead Park, Cutteslowe
  • Tuesday – Barton Pavilion
  • Wednesday – Rose Hill Recreation Ground
  • Thursday – Fry’s Hill Park, Greater Leys
  • Friday – Wood Farm field (behind Forresters Tower)

Bounts points can be earned by attending any Youth Ambition session. Bounts rewards individuals with points for attendance – the more sessions you attend the more points you earn. Points can be redeemed against a wide range of items including tickets to Oxford United games, player meet and greets, Love2shop gift vouchers and much more.

It works like this:

  1. Attend your first session and get a free key tag from the session instructor – remember to have it scanned!
  2. Register your key tag when you get home at www.bounts.it and connect to Oxford Youth Ambition.
  3. Remember to take your key tag to every session you attend, get it scanned and watch your points tot up.

Headington World Schools Sports Day a huge success!

Ruth writes:

It was a great honour for me to be invited to open Headington World Schools Sports Day on Tuesday morning at the Community Arena in Marsh Lane. The event attracted funding from a number of sources, and I elected to allocate £254.50 from the Headington Ward budget to help with transport for Headington Schools Partnership children from Windmill School, St Andrew’s School and Cheney School among others.

Headington World School Sports Day

Warming up for Headington World Schools Sports Day

 

Children from each of the schools formed teams representing different countries of the world and pledged that they would take part in the spirit of true sportsmanship and friendship, just like the athletes at the Commonwealth Games in 2 weeks time.

The number of sports on offer included:

  • lacrosse
  • boccia
  • basketball
  • ju-jitsu
  • rugby league
  • tennis
  • football
  • table tennis
  • tri-golf
  • handball
  • dance
  • athletics
  • volleyball
  • dodgeball
  • hockey
  • cricket
  • handball

and a great time was had by all – even the coaches!

Congratulations to Lesley Williams and the Headington Partnership for organising it all.

Ping! is back in Bury Knowle Park

table tennis bats

Ping! Oxford is a festival of free table tennis that brings communities together through sport.

After its huge success last year which saw 21,000 participate in just 5 weeks, the festival is back for 2014 and will be running from 12 July to 7 September.

Bury Knowle Park will be helped by local Ping! Maker volunteers to keep the tables stocked with bats and balls and who will also complete simple monitoring and evaluation forms to give the City Council an idea of how many people take part in the festival.