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Sports

 

Active Leisure
Basketball
Bowls
Fishing
Ipswich Disability Sport Forum
Ipswich Sports Club for the Disabled
Leisure & Sports Centre
Sailing
Swimming

 

ACTIVE LEISURE

Developing sport & leisure activities across the district. Please contact to find out about: Active leisure holiday programme, Coastal Sport, Coastal Playscheme, Junior club development, Coach education programme, Activities for people with disabilities, Sports taster sessions, Equipment loan, Suffolk Youth Games, Advice about grants and sports funding, Active sports programme in your area. Sarah Shinnie. Tel: 01394 444652
Email: sarah.shinnie@suffolkcoastal.gov.uk

BASKETBALL

Suffolk Braves Wheelchair Basketball Club
Meet 6pm on both Tuesday and Sunday at Highpoint and Samuel Ward Upper School. Contact Jan Maclean Tel: 01440 762373   

BOWLS

Kensington Gardens, Lowestoft have purpose built chairs that can be hired for free by disabled bowlers. The chairs have stabilisers & special wheels to protect the green. Tel: 01502 523470

FISHING

Suffolk Disabled Anglers Forum provides people wih disibilities access to fishing in a supported environment Tel: 01449 676818. Please note that reduced rate Fishing Permits are available from Post Offices.

IPSWICH DISABILITY SPORT FORUM
Produces a guide to help identify a sports club that can cater for the needs of a person with disabilities. Tel: 01473 433500.
 Website: www.idsf.org.uk

IPSWICH SPORTS CLUB FOR THE DISABLED
For those with physical disabilities aged 14 upwards. Games include bowls, kurling and wheel-chair basketball. Mrs P Hoy 65 Ranelagh Rd, Ipswich. Tel: 01473 690834

LEISURE & SPORTS CENTRES

  • Brandon: Tel:01842 813748
  • Brackenbury Tel: 01394 270278
  • Bury St Edmunds Leisure Centre Tel: 01284 753496
  • Debenham Tel: 01728 861101
  • East Bergholt: Tel: 01206 299340
  • Felixstowe Leisure Centre Tel: 01394 670411
  • Great Cornard Sports Dome Tel: 01787 374861
  • Hadleigh High Leisure Centre Tel: 01473 824441
  • Hartismere: Tel: 01379 871015
  • Haverhill Leisure Centre. Tel: 01440 702548
  • Leiston Leisure Centre Tel: 01728 830364
  • Mid Suffolk Leisure Centre, Stowmarket. Tel: 01449 674980
  • Mildenhall: Tel: 01638 717737
  • Newmarket Exning Road. Tel: 01638 662726
  • Stowmarket Tel: 01449 674980
  • Sudbury Sports Centre Tel: 01787 373132
  • Yellow Dot Sports Centre Tel: 01787 312065

Ipswich

  • Gainsborough Sports & Community Centre. Specific activities for people with disabilities Fri 10-12noon & Tues 2-4pm. 5 Braziers Wood Road. Tel: 01473 433644
  • Maidenhall Sports Centre, Maidenhall Approach. Tel: 01473 433622
  • Northgate Sports Centre, Sidegate Lane. Tel: 01473 433611
  • Whitton Sports and Community Centre, Whitton Church Lane. Tel: 01473 433633

Waveney

Sports & Swimming for disabled people on Sundays between 12.15pm-1.15pm
(pool hoist & two lifeguards available).. Water Lane, Lowestoft NR32 2NH. Tel: 01502 569116

 

SAILING

  • EAST ANGLIAN SAILING TRUST (EAST)
    EAST has wheelchair accesible keelboats and sail on Tue & Wed from 6.00pm weather permitting. Also runs cruises for blind & visually impaired adults.. Colin Williamson, Levington Marina, Levington. Tel: 01473 785600
    Website: www.east-anglian-sailing-trust.org.uk

  • JUBILEE SAILING TRUST
    Runs tall-ship adventure sailing holidays for people of all physical abilities aged 16-70. Hazel Road Southampton SO19 7GB. Tel: 0870 443 5783

  • SAILING (WOLVERSTONE PROJECT)
    Sailing on the River Orwell & at Alton Water for people with disabilities. Alton Water for single & two-handed sailing all year round in Access Dinghies & Challengers. River Orwell on Tues, Wed & Thursdays from May to October for groups on Hawk 20 & Drascombe Longboat. Shelley Nott ,c/o Longmead, Benhall Green, Saxmundham, IP17 1HU. Tel: 07718 585358 E-mail: woolverstone@btinternet.com

 

SWIMMING

Ipswich

  • Fore Street Baths, Fore Street, Ipswich . Tel: 01473 433668
  • Crown Pools, Crown Street, Ipswich . Tel: 01473 433655
  • Ipswich & District Disabled Persons Swimming Club for people with disabilities on Sundays 10am - 12noon. Fore St. Mrs A M Welham Tel: 01473 401374

Hadleigh Hadleigh Swimming Pool . Tel: 01473 823470

Waveney Valley Swimming Pool Swimming for disabled people every other Sunday between 5.30pm-6.30pm. St Johns Hill, Bungay, NR35 1PH. Tel: 01986 895014

Sudbury Avocet Swimming Club, 16 Mallard Way, Gt Cornard. Tel: 01473 411847

Stowmarket Mid Suffolk Leisure Centre, Gainsborough Road. Tel: 01449 674980

Stradbroke Pool, Wilby Road, Stradbroke. Tel: 01379 384376

 

Last Updated 25th August 2007 - SDIG