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Team Ipswich Community
Team Ipswich is creating opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to take part in recreation and community sport, encouraging healthy living, helping people feel fitter and diverting young people away from anti-social behaviour. Young people and their families have the chance to try new sports and access coaching to improve their skills and fitness.
To make sporting opportunities more widely available, Team Ipswich is working with Sport England, the Government’s national sports body. The campaign is putting Ipswich on the map for major sports initiatives and national events.
There’s also a growing number of local initiatives – see below for further details.
The Ipswich Community Basketball Project is a partnership between: Department for Culture Media & Sport, England Basketball, Ipswich Basketball Club, Team Ipswich, Sport England, Suffolk Basketball, Suffolk Sport and Westbourne High School.
The Kellogg’s Swim Active programme, is designed to provide young people and their families with easier access to swimming facilities. It aims to break down the barriers, which prevent people participating, to ensure everybody has the opportunity to enjoy swimming as part of a healthy balanced lifestyle.
Positive Futures is a national sports-based social inclusion programme that uses sport as a tool to engage with young people at street level. It aims to build self-esteem, develop social skills and encourage regular participation in sport and physical activity.
Jumpers for Goalposts is an innovative project that provides free football sessions for local young people during the school summer holidays. Armed with a bag of balls and quite literally ‘jumpers for goalposts’, our team of qualified coaches provide free football sessions to local youngsters in their local neighbourhoods.
Established in 2000, the Suffolk Youth Games is an annual sporting competition between the seven Districts of Suffolk in a range of sports.