Telephone: 01473 836777
Fax: 01473 836778
Textphone: 01473 836779
Email enquiries@optua.org.uk
Telephone: 01473 836777
Fax: 01473 836778
Textphone: 01473 836779
Email enquiries@optua.org.uk
For information on any of the activities below please call 01473 836770 or email leisure@optua.org.uk
As well as the information below we have also now put together a comprehensive guide to disability sport clubs and opportunities in Suffolk. Please follow this link to access the guide.
Archery
We regularly run rchery courses and sessions in Suffolk and are currently running sessions across the county. Please follow this link for more information.
Athletics
The Orwell Panthers are a successful athletics club for disabled people in the Ipswich area. Please go to their website for more information.
The West Suffolk Tigers is now a Disability Multi-sports club and is now running regular sessions at Bury St Edmunds Leisure Centre. For more information download this poster.
Boccia
Boccia sessions are running every Monday from 5.30pm to 7pm at Gainsborough Sports Centre in Ipswich. For more information contact Cathy Churchyard on 01473 822903.
New Monday boccia sessions are starting at Brackenbury Sports Centre in Felixstowe from 1st November. For more information download this poster.
New Wednesday boccia sessions are now running at The Lowestoft Centre until 2nd March. For more information download this poster.
Bikeactive cycling at Alton Water.
Fridays from March to September at Alton Water near Tattingstone.
Please call 01394 283460 for more information.
New monthly sessions are now running at Woodbridge Town Football Club. The sessions cost £2 and are open to anyone with a disability. Please call 01473 836770 for information.
Waveney Youth Football Club hold weekly disability football sessions in Lowestoft. These are held on Monday evenings from 5.30pm to 6.30pm at the Denes High School and on Saturday mornings from 9am to 10am at Barnards Meadow. For more details call 07860 258412 or 01502 523635 or click here to go to the website. Waveney Youth FC are also hosting a disability football tournament at Barnards Meadow on Saturday 12th February. Please contact them for more details.
Ipswich Town Football Club Ability Counts. Ipswich Town Football Club's Community Trust runs the Ability Counts disability football sessions. For more information call 01473 400513.
Cornard Dynamos are a football club providing opportunities for disabled people aged from eight to adult. The team meets every Saturday at Great Cornard Upper School from 1pm to 2pm. For more details contact Will Hunt on 01787 310952.
Stow-ability. Football Session for all abilities on Friday evenings. Ipswich Town's Ability Counts team are going to be running these sessions indoors through the winter months. Please contact us on 01473 836770 for more information.
Powerlifting
Suffolk Spartans is an inclusive powerlifting club based at East Bergholt Sports Centre, which was set up with support from Optua. Their website can be accessed at www.suffolkspartans.co.uk.
Sailing
East Anglian Sailing Trust (EAST). EAST provide sailing opportunities for disabled people on the River Orwell near Ipswich. EAST have plenty of sailing events and opportunities for disabled people to try sailing. For more information you can call 0333 088 3278 or visit their website at www.e-a-s-t.org.uk.
Woolverstone Project - providing sailing opportunities in Suffolk and Essex. For more information you can call 07507 906719 or visit their website at www.woolverstoneproject.org.uk.
Big Splash swimming sessions
These are supported swimming sessions run by Optua across Suffolk for anyone with a disability. Click here for more details.
Teamipswich disability swimming
Swimming sessions for disabled people of all ages and abilities take place in Ipswich on Wednesday evenings and Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The venues and times depend on which sessions you attend.
The sessions range from learning to swim through to coaching those who want to take part in higher competitions. For more information go to www.teamipswich4.moonfruit.com/#/disability/4525002095 or call Liz Christian on 01473 890767.
Tennis
Monthly disability tennis sessions are running on the third Wednesday of the month at Saxmundham Tennis Club. The sessions are aimed at anyone with a disability aged 16 and over and cover wheelchair and regular tennis. They run from 11am to 1pm and cost £2 per person/per session. For more information please call Optua Leisure on 01473 836770.
Wheelchair Basketball
The Bury Bombers wheechair basketball club meets regularly in Bury St Edmunds. For more information visit their website here.
The Ipswich Charioteers Wheelchair Football has recently been given its own charity status. The team is currently meeting using the Bramford Road Methodist Church in Ipswich until February 2010. If anyone is interested in finding out more about the sessions or taking part please contact Claire O'Brien-Ellington on 07786 062656. You can also email ipswich.charioteers@hotmail.co.uk or visit www.icwfc.co.uk. There is also a Video Nation film about Claire's aspiration to form a team at the BBC Suffolk website - click here to see it.
New wheelchair football sessions are running on Fridays at the Denes High School in Lowestoft from Friday 12th November to Friday 17th December and then from Friday 7th January 2011 to Friday 25th March 2011. For more information download this poster.
Ipswich Sports Club for the Disabled
This club are based at Northgate Sports Centre in Ipswich and provide sports and social facilities for disabled people and their friends and families in the Ipswich area. The main sports are carpet bowls and wheelchair basketball although they have facilities for other activities. The club operates on a Tuesday evening between 7pm and 9pm. For more information call 01473 690834 or email ipswich_sport_for_disabled@hotmail.com. You can also visit www.iscd.org.uk.
For more information about any of these activities please call 01473 836770 or email us on leisure@optua.org.uk.
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