Bristol will celebrate its status as a 2019 Men’s Cricket World Cup Host City with a three-day visit from the tournament trophy in March, ahead of the staging of three matches at the County Ground this summer. The trophy will appear at events and landmarks in the city between Friday-Sunday, March 8-10 as part of [...]
The cricket world cup has revealed that the Cricket world cup trophy tour will take place over 100 days in England and Wales. Commencing on 19 February, the trophy will visit the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 Host Cities of London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham, Leeds, Durham, Southampton, Cardiff and Taunton, stopping off at [...]
OpenActive is a community-led initiative with the ambition to help people in England get active using open opportunity data. More information can be found here https://www.openactive.io/ Open opportunity data is about where and when sport and physical activities happen. Opportunity data covers many types of physical activities. From one-to-one classes, mass participation events, to gym [...]
Pedal Progression, Archtirail along with 80 volunteers have completed a series of improvements to the Ashton Court mountain cycling trail between June and December 2018. Approximately 2 km of track have been improved with 200 tonnes of tones of stone moved to create an better cycling experience. This provides an excellent opportunity to mountain bike [...]
For keen cyclists and new cycle leaders British cycling are offering two cycle leadership level 1 courses in Bristol. The courses will qualify you as a level 1 leader in Breeze rides or Guided rides. For more information and to apply please follow the links below: Ride Leaders level 1 course - Guided rides - [...]
Congratulations go to Elaine May and Helen Potter for being awarded the ‘Nik Stuart Honorary Life Membership of British Gymnastics.’ This award recognises outstanding service to British Gymnastics and gymnastics at a national level for a minimum of 10 years. This is an amazing achievement and the article on British gymnastics website outlines their achievements [...]
Overview 2017 was an exciting year for Bristol as a European City of Sport. Sport and physical activity achieved a higher profile both within our communities and at political level. Key highlights included the radio and broadcasting sector getting involved with community radio shows and the production of various small films, the development of a [...]
100,000 women are taking a shot at Back to Netball A whopping 100,000 women across the country are playing Back to Netball; England Netball’s flagship participation programme, which first launched 10 years ago to encourage people of all ages to play the sport recreationally. England Netball has announced that 30-year-old Alexandra Challis from Bristol, was [...]
What sport/ activity does your club do? Tandem bicycle riding for blind and visually impaired people Tell us more about your sport/ activity? Twos Company rides are fun and sociable, for anyone in Bristol aged 8 to 80 who is visually impaired or disabled and would like to try tandem cycling in a supportive group. [...]
Back in 2015, Bristol City Council Sports Team had a remit within a funding bid to get more people running within specific areas of the city, where there were traditionally less physical activity opportunities and correspondingly lower physical activity levels. The funder, Sport England, also requested that delivery was new, not a copycat of [...]
