The Active Communities
team develops and co-ordinates activities, in partnership with
the education and health services, the police and the
voluntary sector, to maximise achievement in sport, encourage
personal fitness and healthy lifestyles - particularly in
young and older people.
We work closely with schools, clubs, coaches and facilities to
improve access to sport and physical activity for all sectors of
the community. We also provide support and advice to sport and
leisure groups and the voluntary sector.
The team runs a variety of outreach
programmes. Our aim is to make sport more accessible,
especially to people in the more remote villages in our
district, by taking activities out into local communities.
These activities have included the summer playscheme and
mobile skatepark, which proved very popular with children and
young people in the villages it visited.
We also have a special website called
Coastal
Potato (new window) which includes details of all the
activities we know that are happening for people aged 0 -18 years
old.
More information and useful links
Follow the links below to find out more about what we do and
what's going on in Suffolk Coastal. If you want to get in touch
with us our contact details are at the bottom of the
page:
Xtremefest
Find out about the free one-day event promoting and celebrating
alternative sports, beach activities and healthy living, held in
Felixstowe in July 2008.
Coastal Potato website (new
window)
Find out what's on in the Suffolk Coastal
area for young people aged 0 - 18 years.
Suffolk Youth Games
Find out the results of the 2008 games which were held at Northgate
Sports Centre in Ipswich.
Suffolk Coastal Sports
Awards
Find out about the 2008 GreenThumb Suffolk Coastal Sports
Awards.
Advice on grants and sports
funding
Guide to grants and sports funding agencies developed
through the Community Sports Alliance.
Sports taster sessions
Qualified sports coaches can come into your school or club and give
a general or specific taster session to encourage new people into a
sport. Contact us for more information.
Equipment loans
A large store of sports equipment is available for short-term
loan. Contact us for more information.
Sports club database
Coming soon! - we are
creating a database of all the sports clubs in the Suffolk
Coastal district. If you represent a sports club, please get in
touch with us so you can be added to the database. In the meantime,
if you are looking for a sports club you can use the
Bury Sport website (new window) which
includes details of clubs in the Suffolk Coastal area.
Coastal Sports
Alliance
Launched in February 2007, the Coastal
Sports Alliance aims to increase participation in sport
by getting clubs and other organisations to work together.
Sports coach
education
Find out about sports coach education
courses, library resources and how to get involved in coaching in
Suffolk Coastal.
Sport website links
Useful
links to the websites of official sport sites and other
national bodies.
Getting in touch
For more information, or to find out how to get involved please
contact the Active Communities team on 01394
444652 or email
active.communities@suffolkcoastal.gov.uk
Active Communities Team,
Suffolk Coastal District Council,
Melton Hill,
Woodbridge IP12 1AU.