Waveney District Council recognises, promotes and supports the work
of many sports clubs and organisations that encourage children and
adults with disablities to try out sports and works closely with
its partners to improve the coaching and training facilities and
opportunities available to them.
Waveney Sports and Leisure Centre
Water Lane, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Tel: 01502 569116
Disabled sessions are available at the centre. Telephone for times
and prices.
Waveney Valley Swimming
Pool
St. John's Hill, Bungay, Suffolk.
Tel: 01986 895014
Waveney Valley Pool is an indoor heated pool has a walk-in ramp
which is excellent for wheelchair access. There is ample space for
spectators and plenty free parking for all users.
Sporting Opportunities for Disabled
Performers
The following clubs offer opportunities to disabled
performers:
Feathers & Fletchings (archery)
Lowestoft
Tel: 01502 730828
Lowestoft Archery Club
Kirkley High School Sports & Fitness Centre
Tel: 01502 525350
Lowestoft Railway Bowls Club
Carlton Road, Lowestoft
01502 586493
Oulton Broad Watersports Centre
(caneoing/kayaking)
Oulton Broad, Lowestoft
Tel: 01502 587163
Rotary Chess Club
Ex-Serviceman’s Club
Tel: 01502 584320
Rookery Park Golf Club
Beccles Road, Lowestoft
01502 509190
Waveney Gymnastics Club
Lowestoft
Tel: 01502 501419
Pakefield Riding School
Lowestoft
Tel: 01502 572257 / 562410
Knodishall Riding School
Knodishall, Saxmundham
Tel: 01728 832989
Lowestoft Kuk Sool Won (martial arts)
Lowestoft and Halesworth
Tel: 07908 786278
Lowestoft Sport Action Club (children’s
multi-sports)
Kirkley High School Sports & Fitness Centre
Tel: 01502 525350
Sailability (sailing)
Waveney & Oulton Broad Yacht Club
Tel: 01502 475228
Waveney Shooting Club
North Cove
Tel: 01502 476324
Norwich Ski Club
Trowse, Norwich
Tel: 01603 662781
Lowestoft Sub Aqua Club
@ Waveney Sports & Leisure Centre
Tel: 01502 678171
Swimming
Waveney Sports & Leisure Centre (public or disabled
sessions)
Tel: 01502 569116
Lowestoft & Oulton Broad Swimming Club
@
Waveney Sports & Leisure Centre
Tel: 01502 730024
Waveney Valley Pool
Bungay
Tel: 01986 895014
Weight Training
Kirkley
High School Sports & Fitness Centre
Tel: 01502 525350
We recommend that you contact the above clubs direct to discuss
your individual requirements.
The English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS)
is the national governing body responsible for developing sport for
disabled people in England.
For more information visit the EFDS website at
http://www.efds.net (opens new
window).
Optua is the Suffolk-based disability charity that
provides a wide range of services for people with disabilities
across Suffolk and beyond.
For more information visit their website at
http://www.optua.org.uk (opens new
window).
Suffolk Disability Sport Academy
Suffolk-based disability charity Optua launched their Disability
Sport Academy project in September 2006. Optua’s Disability Sport
Academy helps disabled people get into sport and to date the
Academy has already successfully held three Showcase Days, the
first two being in Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds.
This major disability sport event visited Lowestoft on Saturday, 22
September 2007 and took place at Waveney Sports & Leisure
Centre, Water Lane. This free event was open to anyone with a
physical, sensory or learning disability and gave over 100 people
the chance to try out a range of Paralympic sports for free.
The 11 paralympic sports on the day were archery, athletics,
boccia, football, sailing, judo, wheelchair basketball, goalball,
sitting volleyball, table tennis and powerlifting.
Boccia is a sport similiar to French boules
(bowls)
Goalball is aimed at the visually impaired as the
ball has a bell inside
These Showcase Days are part of Optua's Suffolk Disability Sport
Academy project which aims to encourage more disabled people to get
into sport and maybe even help them on the road to the 2012
Paralympics in London.
Optua aims to do this in several ways:
- by running such Showcase Days across Suffolk
- by organising taster sessions for different sports such as
archery
- by helping to set up new disability sports clubs
- by helping those with disabilities find out what opportunities,
facilities and clubs are available in their area
- by working closely with such organisations as the local sports
clubs, County Sports Partnership (Suffolk Sport), Community Sports
Networks and local councils
The event was well supported by a range of local organisations
including the Adnams Charity, Suffolk Sport, Waveney District
Council, the Active Waveney Sports Partnership, Active Norfolk ,
the Suffolk Foundation, the Geoffrey Watling Charity and Harrod UK
Limited.
To find out more about the Suffolk Disability Sport Academy please
call Optua Leisure on 01473 836770, email
leisure@optua.org.uk or go to
www.beyourbest.org.uk
For the latest fixtures dates, go to our
Athletics
page