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Football
Competition
Saturday 10.00am –
3.00pm
A 5-a-side Football Competition will
be organised by West Ham United FC & Leyton Orient
FC. The competition will feature youth teams from
the 14 London professional football clubs and will be
open to girls and boys under 14 and under 18. Extreme Mountain Bike
Show
Saturday & Sunday:
Shows:1.30pm; 3.00pm &
4.30pm
RJ Ride
Guide is a professional team who specialise in
Entertainment shows providing an Extreme Mountain Bike
Show with a difference. Our show consists of some
of the most talented riders in the UK. We have
talented trials rider but who are also a phenomenal
entertainer with the easy banter of a stand-up comedian,
combined technique with superb showmanship with some
truly jaw-dropping tricks and manoeuvres. Not only does
he perform cycling miracles, he dramatizes them as he
rides them.
Leisure Climb
Ltd
Saturday & Sunday 10.00am –
6.00pm
The mobile climbing wall allows
climbers of all ages and abilities to experience the joy
of climbing and an incredible sense of
achievement.
The wall hosts four different climbing
routes allowing four climbers to participate at once.
All climbers are harnessed and attached to the
auto-belay system making them secure. As the climber
ascends, the safety line retracts, during the descent or
fall, the auto-belay safety system lowers the climber
gently to the ground. The activities are supervised by
at least one experienced climbing instructor.
Body
MOT’s
Saturday & Sunday 10.00am –
6.00pm
Use this opportunity to find out
about your general health, measurements included height,
weight, blood pressure, resting heart rate, body fat %
and Body Mass Index and find out information on what is
also available on the various types of physical activity
opportunities within Redbridge for both adults and young
people. Come and Try sessions
Saturday
& Sunday 10.00am – 6.00pm
Come and try sessions gives you the
opportunity to try all aspects of the many different
sports, including mini competitions, skills and agility
whilst having lots of fun.
Have a go at the
different sports including in-door rowing, tennis,
basketball, athletics, cricket, tri-golf, handball,
softball, circuits, boxercise and hula
hoping!
Saturday
-
Outdoor Circuits
– 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Hula hooping – 1.30pm –
2.30pm
Boxercise - 3.00pm –
4.00pm
Sunday
-
Outdoor Circuits – 12.00pm –
1.00pm
Boxercise - 3.00pm –
4.00pm
Water
Sports
Saturday & Sunday 1.00pm –
5.00pm
Open Candian canoes, topper sailboats
and trips on the rescue boats, all with a qualified
instructor.
Fit For
Sport
Saturday 10.00am –
6.00pm
Fit For Sport is the UK's leading
Children's Healthy Lifestyle Activities Provider, aimed
at and committed to 'keeping the future fit'. Fit For
Sport currently work with over 40 schools in London
providing curriculum PE, After Schools Clubs, PPA Cover,
Extended Schools and Health Weeks. FFS also operate
healthy lifestyle holiday kids camps at over 38
locations across the UK, catering for over 32,000
children per year. We run healthy school holiday
Kids Camps at Caterham High School, Ilford, so come
along to meet our team to find out more.
Stalls
Many
different services have joined us for the day, come and
have a look at what they have to offer…. Sport & Physical
Activity Team
Saturday & Sunday 10.00am –
6.00pm
Come and find out how you can get involved
in a more active and successful Redbridge.
The
Sport and Physical Activity Team is dedicated to
creating and providing opportunities for participation
in sport and physical activity, which include coach
education, sporting events, advising clubs and schools
on grant aid and development opportunities, delivering a
Healthy Lifestyle and Walk to health Programme and
supporting talented young athletes and new and existing
sports coaches through our Scholarships Scheme.
Vision – Redbridge
Culture & Leisure Ltd
As a new charitable
leisure trust, Vision provides leisure services on
behalf of the London Borough of Redbridge at the
following facilities: Ilford Leisure Centre, Fullwell
Cross Leisure Centre, Cricklefields Athletic Ground and
Ashton Playing Fields.
Vision - Redbridge Culture
& Leisure aims to increase participation,
accessibility and inclusivity across its services,
developing partnerships and sharing best practice
throughout facilities.
Redbridge
PCT
Saturday & Sunday
10.00am – 6.00pm
RedQuit Smoking
Cessation
PALS/PCT information stand
Terrance
Higgins Trust
RCVS Engineering and Building Services
- Travel Awareness / Living
Streets
Saturday & Sunday
10.00am – 6.00pm
We will offer advice and
guidance on a range of issues, from reduced car use to
increased walking and come and find out about Living
streets - Fitter for Walking Project!
You Choose – The Redbridge
Conversation
The Redbridge Conversation is about
making our Borough a better place to live. We are
asking everyone who lives and works in Redbridge to talk
about the long-term improvements they want to see, and
how the Council should pay for them.
You can find out about all the
Council’s investment and funding options on our website
or in any Redbridge library. Talk to us at the Sports
and Arts Festival you can tell us about your long-term
investment priorities with the ‘You Choose’
questionnaire online, or by filling in a leaflet.
Register online at Redbridge i
www.redbridge.gov.uk
Mobile
Library
Saturday & Sunday
10.00am – 6.00pm
The Mobile Library….
Your local library on wheels comes whizzing to you
with FREE membership. You can borrow books, make use of
our free internet access or enjoy a story-time. For a
small charge you can also borrow a CD or DVD.
Whether you are interested in arts, sport or music –
we can help you.
Family fun….
Join
in our story-telling at 11am; 12noon; 2pm; 3pm; 4pm.
Each session lasts 15 minutes and is just a taste of
the services we run in our libraries for local children
and families.
Take the
challenge….
Or, take part in our book quiz –
ask for your quiz sheet and feel free to roam around the
festival asking stall-holders for help in answering the
questions.
Help us to balance the books…
With our Mobile library fully wired up
for access to the Internet, you can take this
opportunity to have your say in the Redbridge
Conversation.
This is your chance to help set the
spending plan for Redbridge Council and decide if
allotments or libraries need more capital investment, or
whether we should concentrate on other
priorities.
Drugsline
Saturday
& Sunday 10.00am – 6.00pm
Drugsline is
an independent drugs crisis, information and support
charity. It provides free and confidential
information and support for people with drugs and
alcohol related issues, their families and friends.
We also provide a unique Education and
Outreach Programme that can be tailor made to cater for
each school/organisation's individual requirements and
cultural needs. Contact Lisa on 0208 554 3220 to find
out more.
If you need help, call our Freephone
Crisis & Support Line on: 0808 1 606 606.
Youth Crime
Prevention Service
Saturday
& Sunday 10.00am – 6.00pm
The Youth
Crime Prevention Service is made up of
4 teams which aim to prevent young people
becoming involved in offending in the borough. This is
done though a combination of individual and
group support work by specialist prevention
workers, support to parents and families, work in
schools and supporting members of the
community.
Fusion
Saturday
& Sunday 10.00am – 6.00pm
Fusion is the
young people's drug and alcohol service in Redbridge. By
drawing together workers from different service areas we
provide Education, Advice and Treatment to young people
in the borough to address the harmful effects of drugs
and alcohol.
Connexions
Saturday 10th May 2008 10.00am
– 6.00pm
Sunday 11th May 2008 1.30pm
– 5.00pm
Redbridge Connexions is an
information, advice, guidance and support service for
young people aged 13 - 19 years (up to 25 with
additional needs). We offer information, advice
and guidance about choice of career, employment and
training (including support with CV's and interview
skills). Offer support with personal issues
including relationships, housing, benefits, health or
drug issues etc
Environment
Agency / Redbridge Emergency Planning
Unit
Saturday & Sunday
10.00am – 6.00pm
This stand will be
promoting awareness of flood risks in the borough and
encouraging members of the public to sign up for the
Environment Agency's free flood alert system:
"Floodline Warnings Direct" on 0845 988 1188
Leaflets and advice will be available on how to
protect your home from flooding and there will be a
competition to win a "Flood Kit".
Circo Rum Baba’s
‘Whale’
Spectacular 50ft true to life,
inflatable sperm whale, guarded by a noisy fishwife, who
leads brave landlubbers into its belly revealing the
stunning sea scape of its lavishly decorated interior.
Once inside they encounter a shipwrecked pirate and a
treasure-hoarding mermaid and hear their extraordinary
fishy tales.
Brought to you by Circo Rumbaba
The Black
Eagles
The Black Eagles present
stunning acrobatic skills, energetic dance and an
uplifting African Musical sound track, in performances
that are both enjoyable and breathtaking
Big
Beat
Big Beat are the most innovative and
original purveyors of junk-percussion music and their
energetic funk-fuelled performances make them one of the
most exciting festival acts of the millennium.
Big Beat produce incredible sounds on a
multi-coloured array of industrial waste - including gas
pipes, kitchen sinks and plastic barrels. Audiences will
be instantly engaged and amazed by the infectious beats.
Boy Blue
Entertainment
As Londons’ most exciting and
innovative dance troupe, Boy Blue Entertainment is
making waves within the dance community and intends to
extend its appeal, reaching a wider UK audience and from
there, international audiences fascinated with hip hop
culture and dance in general.
Bangers & Mash
Theatre Company
Bangers & Mash specialise
in productions for children, performed using acting,
puppets, songs, games and lots more, with the use of
interaction between the audience and performers.
They will be performing a free theatre production of
George & the Dragon aimed at 4-8 year olds.
Adanta
African Dance
Adanta is a cultural
organization dedicated to the preservation, education,
and appreciation of traditional African music, dance,
theatre, and culture. Adanta raise the profile of
African performing arts through training and development
of new and existing talent and creating and delivering
innovative, cross cultural performances that fuse
musical genre in the mainstream industry
Taitt
Academy
Everyone’s teaching Street
dance today but if you want to learn Hip-Hop the
authentic way with award winning choreographers, then
don’t delay. Move a step closer to being part of
the hottest urban dance academy around today. So if you
want to learn how to Krump, Lock, Pop, Flip, Break,
Freeze, Wave and do many, many more of all the latest
dance moves taking the Urban dance scene by storm, then
make Taitt Academy the place for you !!! So …. Do you
have the flava and funk?
Honey’s Dance Academy Honey's Dance Academy is UK's leading
British Asian Dance Academy. Students have had the
opportunity to take part in leading film projects like
Mohabattein, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham,
Bollywood Queen and Indian Babu
together with music videos including S Club Junior, D J
Vix and Bond.
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