Author: Claire Jones

A Welcome Reception Awaits You at The Vale – by Sport Parkinson’s Golfer Kevin Bywater

Kevin Bywater, Parkinson’s Wales Team member for whom The Vale Resort is his home course welcomes all golfers of all genders and levels of experience: “After recent studies it has been agreed Golf is the best form of exercise to slow down the progression of Parkinson’s. Since I retired, and slowly built my confidence back,…
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Find Your Way to Play at The Vale this May

Sport Parkinson’s are bringing two events to Wales on the 3rd May – the first ever golf open Parkinson’s Tournament with free golf pro training for beginners and those returning to the sport, at The Vale Resort – and is open to all people with Parkinson’s. Never picked up a club on anything other than…
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Sport Parkinson’s Walking Football Tournament Video – Trailer!

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Not long till the video….

Meanwhile here is a taster, in the form of photos, of a fantastic day at St George’s Park Thanks to Dan at DRAW MEDIA for the preview.

The Walking Football Programme

By popular request, here is the online version of the day programme.

Matchday Live with Sport Parkinson’s at St Georges Park

This is your one stop shop for all updates! The final will be live! Add to your bookmarks and keep refreshing Live in play Round 1 Pennine Parkies 2 vs DEKA 0 FT Birmingham WFC 1 v Fighting Fit Football 0 PD Warrior Bristol 0 v North Cumbria 0 Movers and Shakers 0 v Stockport…
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Sport Parkinson’s is on Instagram

We will be posting all our picture history to Instagram – plus follow us there for exclusive content! https://www.instagram.com/sportpdinsta/ Here are our latest posts!

IWD 2022 – Break the Bias and Have Your Say..

Today is International Women’s Day and we like to listen, to be able to reflect the needs of the community. We want to reflect the needs of women in our community more adequately – do our bit to help #BreakTheBias We have decided to start off the ongoing process with an open structured survey –…
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Walking Football Tournament – What you need to know about the day

Timetable for the day: We will be playing indoors on the Sir Alf Ramsey pitch. 11.00 Teams and Players to meet (registration) 11.30 – 11.45 Teams warm up / Team photos 11.45  Referee briefing – reminder of the rules Tournament 1545 Event closes (pitch must be clear) There will be family activities including penalty shoot outs, training with…
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Poetry in Motion! Nick Beswick on Football

Thank you to Nick Beswick for this poem, if you have any sport inspired creative works – send them to claire@sportparkinsons.org and we will feature as many as we can! Football and me – Pennine Parkies FCmatch dayand the oppositionfree from any condition such as ourslook across and sneerin ungainly mobwe twitch, we movewe shake,…
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