Outdoor Arena - Redbridge Sports & Leisure
Outdoor Arena - Redbridge Sports & Leisure
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<strong>Redbridge</strong> <strong>Sports</strong> & <strong>Leisure</strong><br />
<strong>Outdoor</strong> <strong>Arena</strong><br />
BEALONIANS F.C.<br />
In the shadow of the new venue<br />
being built at <strong>Redbridge</strong> <strong>Sports</strong><br />
Centre, nearly 1,000 Year 8<br />
children across the London<br />
Borough of <strong>Redbridge</strong> come<br />
together to participate in a day of<br />
sports, including football, hockey,<br />
tennis, netball and rounder’s plus<br />
numerous others.<br />
As a Charter Standard<br />
Development Club, working<br />
through Bill Blackwell who is the<br />
club’s ‘football development officer’,<br />
Bealonians volunteers took a day<br />
off work to help organise and run<br />
the boy’s football event for the day,<br />
ensuring it ran to schedule,<br />
refereeing the games and working<br />
out the winners.<br />
This year’s event on 28 th<br />
September saw 14 schools enter a<br />
team playing in two groups of 7,<br />
with the winners of each group<br />
playing each other and the 2 nd<br />
place teams battling it out for 3 rd /4 th<br />
place. Trinity school ran out the<br />
winners, and the lack of video<br />
evidence meant any bias towards<br />
Beal school or unfavourable<br />
decisions towards Ilford County<br />
High School (Old Parkonians) went<br />
unproven.<br />
In keeping with the Olympic theme<br />
each school represents one<br />
country, and through each sport the<br />
winners get maximum points and<br />
so on down, creating a good fun<br />
competitive environment.<br />
Beal’s volunteers, from left to right. Dave Byrne,<br />
Andy MacRae, Paul Brown, Gary Lazarus, Paul<br />
Skorzewski, Bill Blackwell, Terry Barlow and<br />
John Reid.<br />
On the football front, it was<br />
encouraging to see players<br />
attempting different skills, and one or<br />
two with exceptional ability and<br />
already part of the academies of<br />
clubs known to all of us. The slightly<br />
disappointing factor was the energy<br />
levels, but perhaps that was due to<br />
the exceptionally fine weather, which<br />
the Bealonian’s volunteers<br />
thoroughly enjoyed, nearly as much<br />
as their post-event review in the bar.<br />
An added bonus this year came as<br />
quite a surprise when we received<br />
this picture below (amongst others)!<br />
In conjunction with Adrian Newell,<br />
who has worked abroad on several<br />
occasions, Bealonains provided an<br />
old strip of our colours to be used in<br />
South Africa and clearly from the<br />
pictures we received back, it is being<br />
enjoyed by many (it seems a pair of<br />
our shorts has gone missing already<br />
looking at the back line).<br />
As always, Bealonians FC are<br />
looking for quality players to join the<br />
higher end of the club where our 1 st<br />
XI play in the Premier of the AFC<br />
(Amateur Football Combination). If<br />
you would like some more<br />
information please contact Bill<br />
Blackwell on 07958 636493<br />
JUNIOR NETBALL &<br />
FOOTBALL COURSES<br />
SPECIAL OFFER - FREE taster<br />
session for anyone wishing to<br />
join one of our <strong>Outdoor</strong> Junior<br />
Courses.<br />
Phone our Junior Courses<br />
Administrator on 020 8498 1026<br />
for more information or to book a<br />
place on any junior course.<br />
BACK TO NETBALL<br />
Sessions on Tuesdays 7.30pm -<br />
8.45pm. From January 2012<br />
sessions will take place<br />
INDOORS.<br />
Phone 020 8498 1025 for more details<br />
NETBALL & NEW SPORTS<br />
HALL<br />
New Courts! All up & running!<br />
Hopefully, netballers will agree, that<br />
it was well worth the wait for our<br />
newly re-surfaced netball courts.<br />
There were a few teething<br />
problems to start with eg lights,<br />
footballs flying over the fences &<br />
onto the new courts 10-12 !! &<br />
some access issues, but all have<br />
now been resolved in time for the<br />
start of Essex Met league.<br />
You will all have obviously noticed<br />
the rise of the New <strong>Sports</strong> Hall from<br />
the old netball courts 6 to 9 at the<br />
<strong>Outdoor</strong> <strong>Arena</strong>? This brilliant new<br />
hall will, along with other sports &<br />
facilities, host 3 INDOOR Netball<br />
courts which can also turn into a<br />
show court with tiered seating (500<br />
capacity).<br />
Hopefully we will have some<br />
Premier/Showcase matches to look<br />
forward to watching along with<br />
some AENA tournaments.<br />
Invites will be sent out soon inviting<br />
representatives from local netball<br />
clubs, Essex Met committee and<br />
other interested parties to come<br />
and have a tour of the New <strong>Sports</strong><br />
Hall and of course to “try out” the<br />
new courts.<br />
If your club is interested in training<br />
INDOORS there are a few slots<br />
available - phone Sue McGee.<br />
RSC Youth Netball Club: Ring Sue<br />
McGee on 020 8498 1021<br />
RS&L’s Summer 2011 Netball Camp<br />
PROVIDING HEALTHY LIVING FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY www.rslonline.co.uk<br />
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