August 2010
Borough Sports Camp
On Tuesday 3rd August Ingrid and Lucinda from HFRFC Ladies Team imparted some rugby skils at the Borough Sports Camp at Phoenix High School, White City. The Camp, organised by the Metropolitan Police, runs every day from 10am-3pm for 4 weeks (between 2nd and 27th August) as well as in every school holiday, except for Christmas. Over the summer around 600 local boys and girls between ages 8 and 19 are expected to attend the camp.
The aim of the camp is to introduce a variety of different sports and activities to young people living in the Hammersmith and Fulham borough. Activities include, football, futsul, trampolining, rugby union, cooking, jewellery making and dancing, all of which are provided free of charge, with a key focus this year on involving and engaging more girls in sport.
Ingrid and Lucinda ran two sessions over the course of the day teaching groups of up to 20 children the basics of rugby and skill development through a series of small sided games such as rugby-tennis, tag-rugby and rugby-rounders (you can probably see that there was a bit of a theme to the activities). Contributing to the local community was extremely rewarding particularly when three children from the first session chose to come back in the afternoon, sharing the skills they learnt in the morning with the new group.
The Camp is solely dependent on volunteers to provide coaching, therefore if you are interested in helping for a day or more please get in touch with Lucinda for more information or contact Jane Little (Jane.L.Little@met.police.uk) from the Met Police directly.
