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Promoting Junior Badminton in Rossendale published their Delivery Report!3 months ago
Delivered 7 January 2024
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By Rossendale Badminton League
Rossendale Badminton league want to expand their junior coaching at The Adrenaline Centre, Haslingden by supplying t-shirts, racquets, shuttles and covering court and coaching costs.
We want to supply t-shirts for our Rossendale Junior Badminton players so they promote the area when they play local tournaments. We would also like to supply the players with improved racquets and shuttlecocks, as well as covering the court costs. Through promotional posters which we will distribute to schools and leisure centres, we hope to increase the current number of players who attend the weekly practice, and to pay travelling expenses for the volunteer coaches. We particularly want to target girls to the practice as the senior league has a shortage of female players, with a view to encourage individual clubs to 'adopt' young players. We will also organise a local Junior tournament, at grassroots level, to help promote the sport within Rossendale.
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
Badminton is a form of exercise which can be easy to pick up and, with coaching, children can see rapid development in ther achievement. Playing alongside others, encourages both team work and discipline. Listening to coaching and focusing on self-development are skills which we hope to nurture. By providing t-shirts, the children will get a sense of both pride and belonging. The covering of court and racquet costs enables all children to attend as an activity which has been subsidised for them. Competition against other teams and areas will help to develop resilience and an awareness that you may not always win but you can always do your best.
Steps to get it done:
If the bid is successful, we will make sure that our neighbouring badminton league of Blackburn&Darwen, also sees the benefits of our crowdfund.
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...telling everyone about our amazingly successful fund raising for Rossendale Junior Badminton at The Birley Artist Studios, Preston next Thursday 9th November! Here's me with Wendy (yes, we're on first name terms now!) the Community Champion for Tesco's Haslingden branch. She had donated some energy bars for the Year 9 and the Year 11 teams when they played in the first round of the M65 Junior tournament in Colne last month. The Year 9 team only went and won that leg of the tournament - so the energy bars obviously did the trick! Other 'progress' we've made....well, we've jumped from 6/8 players coming every week to 24/25!! And lots of them are girls, which is fantastic! We give a sticker of the week (with a certificate) each week, chosen by a different parent at the session and we've had to order some more of the amazing t-shirts for the older players. It's all go!
As you can see...we have some proper posters (and leaflets) courtesy of Rossendale Leisure Trust's marketing person, Jodie. Once we'd reached our target, we had a meeting with the new lady at The Adrenaline: we were trying to get reduced court costs (obviously) but ended up with some quality posters instead. I then got the design printed (using some of the funding) and they have now been distributed to all the Primary schools in Rossendale (+ two extra ones) who play in the Rossendale Schools' Sports competition. Today's Sunday coaching session, we had 24 young players attend (11 of them new; 9 of them GIRLS) - whether this is from the posters (which are literally everywhere in Rawtenstall/Haslingden) or the Big Hit we signed up for with Badminton England - who knows...BUT at least we've more than doubled our numbers! The first tournament, the Junior M65, is in two weeks' time, so the teams will be wearing their swish new team tops as they represent Rossendale. More news...one of our volunteer coaches, currently Trainee Coach Claire, will be completing her Level 1 coaching on 7th & 8th October. As you can see, it is all happening at Rossendale Junior Badminton - and I haven't even told you about the 300 word column in the Rossendale Free Press that seems to have come our way! The second picture is from today's coaching where Ruby's Great Grandad, Peter Wood, saw her attend her first session #notbadforaladfromhaslingden
A massive thank you to all who backed this project - or bought raffle tickets or gave cash - you/I know who you are! We have already started with our promotion of junior badminton in Rossendale, welcoming two new players to the Sunday morning coaching last weekend. The small posters we have had printed are being circulated in the local area, particularly in The Adrenaline Centre, where the coaching takes place. Little incentives are being given at the end of the coaching when we play King/Queen of the Court - at the moment in the form of small signed badminton tee shirts which I picked up from the All-England last month. Obviously, this is the just the beginning...watch this space for further progress (once the league Presentation and AGM are out of the way!)
I've not done an update for a while (mainly because we've achieved our target!) but the last donation of £74 comes courtesy of an Easter Egg hamper raffle which lots of the Rossendale badminton players bought tickets for. The hamper was donated by the Community Champion for Asda, and it was drawn at the Handicap Tournament today and won by Fiona Tremblet of Goodshaw Badminton Club. Remember, anything over our target will be donated to our neighbouring leagues of Blackburn and Colne to assist in their promotion of junior badminton.
I may have gone quiet on the raising money front, but, as you can see from the delightful picture, we had a visit from two ladies, Sarah and Louise, from Badminton England at this morning's junior coaching session. They gave us lots of ideas for how to promote the session and recruit more junior players, which we were very grateful for. In the meantime, of course, there is no session next Sunday due to the M65 tournament in Colne. Good luck to all those playing and do Rossendale proud in your new team t shirts!
Well, what can I say...we've only gone and done it! A massive thank you to Lancashire County Council who got us up to our target with a generous £609 donation! We will, of course, surpass our target now - I still have the Easter hamper from the Community Champion in Asda to raffle - but at least I can stop hounding everybody! Those receiving my updates have been key to our success as you were the ones who cared enough to donate...so thank you, thank you, thank you :)
Brilliant news, thanks everyone!
How will the money be spent?Total £1,941
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VolunteerWe are the Rossendale Badminton League and have been running for 70 years. Currently, we have two divisions in the league who play home and away fixtures against clubs in the Rossendale area.
http://rossendalebadmintonleague.co.uk/
We are trying to promote junior badminton at grassroots level, in a bid to keep badminton going in the valley. It is such a brilliant sport to play and rapid development can be seen quite quickly with the right supervision and coaching. Badminton is not only good exercise, but is fairly cheap to get in to (particularly when we can supply the racquets and shuttlecocks!)
Project Owner: Rossendale Badminton League The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
