Welcome everyone to the July edition of my Regional Officer Newsletter. With just 4 days to go until London 2012’s Opening

Ceremony, I hope you are all as excited as I am about the Games and will be backing our 4 Team GB Badminton players all the way. For those of you lucky enough to have got tickets for the Badminton at

Wembley, I’ll keep my eyes peeled for the noisy North East representatives from our clubs, performance centres and

programmes.

REGIONAL OFFICER NEWSLETTER Durham, Tees Valley and South Tyne and

Wear July2012

COACHING COURSES UKCC LEVEL 1 COURSE Venue: Queen Alexandra Sixth Form College, Tyne and Wear Day 1: 8th September 2012 Day 2: 9th September 2012 Day 3: 7th October 2012 Deadline: 10th August 2012 UKCC LEVEL 2 COURSE Venue: Queen Alexandra Sixth Form College, Tyne and Wear Day 1: 2nd February 2013 Day 2: 3rd February 2013 Day 3: 16th March 2013 Day 4: 13th April 2013 Deadline: 5th January 2013 If you are interested in any of the above courses, please con-tact the BADMINTON England Coaching Department

3 of our very own officials from the North East have

been selected to Line Judge at the Olympics. Watch out for Andy Baxter, Ted Ed-

wards, and Caroline Stewart from Saturday 28th July

2012. If you are interested in

becoming a Line Judge , there is a Training Course at Thornaby Pavilion on 14th

October 9am. The training is free, and con-ducted by international line

judges.

Contact Andy for more info: a_s_baxter@yahoo.co.uk

Birtley Leisure Centre, Gateshead From 6th August 6pm—7pm Billingham Forum , Billingham From 7th August 7.30pm—8.30pm Freeman’s Quay. Durham City From 8th August 8pm—9pm Rainbow Leisure Centre, Middlesbrough From 8th August 5pm—7pm Brierton Sports Centre, Hartlepool From 9th August 8pm—9pm Queen’s Campus SC, Stockton on Tees From 9th August 6pm—7pm

North East Regional Badminton Coach Appointed The five North East Community Badminton Networks (CBNs) are de-lighted to announce that they have issued a self employed contract to Sam Moore. Sam was selected for contract after demonstrating his enthusiasm and passion for the sport. A graduate from Northumbria University in Applied Sport and Exercise Science, and a current Sports Marketing Masters student, Sam has experience delivering in schools, clubs and has also assisted at Newcastle Badminton Per-formance Centre. Sam has good knowledge of the CBN structure in the North East and the CBNs are looking forward to working closely with Sam to get more people playing badminton in clubs, No Strings sessions and projects.

Durham City Community Badminton Network

Durham Swifts formed in January 2012, with coaching sessions for juniors and seniors. Since being estab-lished Durham Swifts have gone from strength to strength. Operating at capacity in it’s junior sections and now with a full working committee, they are looking to secure a permanent venue and enter the local leagues for the coming seasons.

With the appointment of the Regional Coach, Durham Swifts will now be launching it’s school programme with Sam delivering in schools on Tuesdays during term time. Sam will in total deliver 4 hours in 25 prima-ries, 6 hours in 8 secondary schools and 6 hours in 4 sixth forms and college insti-tutions across the academic year. Durham Swifts are now working towards Premier Club status which is hoped to be achieve by the start of the new season, and are looking to initiate Durham’s first junior club league between junior clubs across the County.

Gateshead Community Badminton Network

Gateshead Community Badminton Network is proud of the work that is be-ing carried out by Gateshead Badminton Club. Establishing themselves swiftly, they have gone from strength to strength and have ignited the devel-opment of badminton across the borough. Through up to date marketing and social media, the club have a extremely well attended club night, aver-aging 30 people each week and now have a 10 man strong committee who are working hard to cater for the demand the club has generated. Gateshead BC are looking to enter the local league competitions next year. Through the success of Gateshead Badminton Club, Gateshead CBN has applied for £10,000 from Sport England to launch a junior club connected with the senior club called Gateshead Geckos. As well using the funding to establish a junior club, the funding also allows for an extensive school programme as well to allow for good coverage across the Borough.

Hartlepool Community Badminton Network Hartlepool Community Badminton Network successfully applied for a £10,000 grant from the Hartlepool Community Activity Network to deliver a extensive Badminton for Better Health programme, alongside partners Age UK, MIND and Parkinson UK. This programme will now be delivered in September 2012

by our newly appointed Regional Coach . Hartlepool Sixth Form College, in partnership with Hartlepool Community Badmin-ton Network is launching a new Rackets Academy. Integrating coaching into stu-dent’s timetable, strength and conditioning training, and pathways to Teesside Performance Centre, this is a fantastic development for the young people in Hartle-pool.

Strengthening the formation of a Rackets Academy at H6FC, is the move of Brierton Community Badminton Club to be based within the Sixth Form, and to be renamed Hartlepool Badminton Club. The Premier Club’s decision to move should ensure that they receive a steady flow of players into the club, ensuring sustainability in the coming years. With stu-dents entering the clubs environment, they will benefit by not only having access to a Premier Club but also access to the pathway to Teesside Performance Centre.

Stockton on Tees Community Badminton Network Teesside University has been a successful partner of the CBN, with Higher Education Officer Emily having an impact of increasing partici-pation through the Universities various programmes. We are pleased to announce that Emily will remain in her position for 2012/2013 with a focus on engaging the community to use the facilities and programmes at Teesside further.

Tees Valley School Games have run successfully throughout the year, culminating in the final School Games festivals last week. This was a fantastic display of the talent and breadth of sport that is delivered in schools across the Tees Valley.

Queen’s Campus Sports Centre are adopting an unusual badminton programme: Raveminton. Taking place on Thursday 26th July 6pm—8pm at Queen’s Campus, this event is eagerly anticipation. Lights Off, Music On—this UV badminton event will hopefully bring new people to playing our sport in the most unusual of ways. So if you can head down, grab your glow sticks and come play some badminton. If successful this programme may be-coming to a leisure centre near you!

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Sunderland Community Badminton Network Since advertising in the Sunderland Echo for volunteers to start a new Adult Club in the City, progress with the club has been steady. 3 volunteers have come forward to run the club, which will be starting in the new season at St Aidan’s RC School. The City of Sunderland Badminton Club, with a grant from Sunderland CBN will begin ad-vertising shortly, and will be working with local partners as they draw close to launching.

Sam Moore, as the newly appointed Regional Coach will be delivering a number of Sportivate projects, and pri-mary school delivery to support the new Adult Club and the well established St Aidan’s Junior Badminton Club.

Center Parcs National Schools Competition

2011/2012 saw some fantastic matches taking place in the North

East rounds of the Center Parcs National School Competition. The final teams to win the North East Regional Final and progress to

the National Finals in April were as follows:

Key Stage 3 Boys: Hummersknott School, Darlington Key Stage 3 Girls: Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne

Key Stage 4 Boys: Benfield, Newcastle upon Tyne Key Stage 4 Girls: Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon

Tyne

Center Parcs National Schools Badminton Championships for 2012/2013 are now open for entry!

Now into it’s 9th season, with over 22,000 KS3 and KS4

swinging a racket every year, the CPNSC continues to be one of biggest school badminton competition in the whole of

Europe.

If you have any stories, whether they be club victories, player triumphs, or fun facts you would like to share with the North East Badminton Community via this Newsletter please do get in touch by phone or email;

Email: rachelfrobisher@badmintonengland.co.uk Phone: 07827 350401

County Durham Coaching Conference Friday 21st September 2012, 5pm—9pm Emirates International Cricket Ground, Riverside, Chester Le Street Timetable: 5.00pm—5.30pm: Arrival, Registration, Buffet and Refreshments, Market Stalls 5.30pm—5.40pm Introduction and Welcome 5.40pm—6.15pm Guest Speaker, Peter Stanley (Coach to Jonathan Edwards) 6.30pm—7.15pm Workshops (Supporting Success, Using Technology in Coaching, Nutrition for Sport, Importance of Looking after the Body, Delivering motivational sessions, effective and fun warm ups/cool downs, Disability Inclusion) 7.25pm—7.45pm Speaker Jimmy Adams (West Indies Cricketer) 8.00pm—8.45pm Workshops (As above) 8.45pm—9.00pm Summary—What’s next . . . £25 per person, or £15 if you are a member of Club Durham/Volunteer Durham Sign Up at www.countydurhamsport.com