It has been a fantastic end to the school year with over 500
young disabled people competing in regional finals across the country since our
last Newsletter in May.
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 London
After 9 months of coaching and training, and 6 months
of competition, the London Panathlon Final took place on 24 th June. Over
5,000 "active hours" of coaching and competition have taken place this year and over
200 young disabled people had qualified for the Final, by winning through
qualifying rounds. Seven sports
were competed for and at the end of a highly competitive day, Barking &
Dagenham just held off Croydon to retain their London title. B&D champions !
 | In their first appearance in the Final, the new boroughs of Harrow came 3rd, Haringey 4th and Lambeth brought up the rear in 5th. Kate Hoey MP and Commissioner
for Sport in London, was present to award medals and watch the action. Paralympic Gold
medallists, Liz Johnson and Giles Long, provided the inspiration on the day. For a full list of results and more
detail click here.  Sky Sports filmed the days proceedings for future
transmission in a grass roots programme called "SportNation". We will let you
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Powerchair Football   Also on June 24th, Panathlon held its first
Powerchair Football competition involving five area teams in London. Panathlon has
invested in 5 "hub clubs" with equipment and coaching funds and the first
competition took place with 28 Powerchair users enjoying competitive matches.
The "West" team won
the competition - with Jagjit Chuk being the joint top
goalscorer with 4, and Aminul Hoque from the South team, also scoring 4. Sam
Bull from the Wheelchair Football Association co-ordinated the day and Jonathan Bolding, who plays Powerchair Football for England was present to  demonstrate some
gr eat skills.
To read a blog of
the day, please click here. For more information on Powerchair Football in London, contact matthew@panathlon.com. We look forward to expanding this area of next year. Additonally next year Panathlon will be including young footballers with Visual Impairments, more news to follow shortly ! |
 Essex Final 
After a really
competitive days action, Harlow won the Essex title from close runners up,
Thurrock. For more details of the days action click here. Harlow Essex Champions 2010
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Lakeside Shopping Centre contributed to the Thurrock
teams' preparation by paying for additional coaching, so thank you to them for
their kind support again this year.
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Hilton supports Essex!
A big thank you for those who took part in the fundraising
day at Stansted Airport on June 6th, when the Panathlon team
completed 587 miles, which was the 11th highest total in the country !! To date this has raised £7,500 for Panathlon, which will be distrubted to our Essex schools next year, for coaching, new sports equipment and multi-sports competitions.
Javelin Practice !  | A
special thanks to George & Liz MacFarlane, Essex Stansted Police,
Colchester Rugby Club, NW Essex Tri-partnership SSP, and of course the Hilton staff in Stansted - and all the others that
have helped to make this day such a success. For more info click here.
Some of the young people set to benefit from the Hilton Foundation funding in 2010/11 are seen here from Southview Special School in Witham, who enjoyed a inspiring talk from Danny Crates Paralympic champion and Panathlon patron in May, and can be seen above in a Panathlon coaching session.
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Images from our recent Finals!
We hope you enjoy these images from the London and Essex finals, as you can see we all had a lot of fun.
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2010 / 11
Well before we know it we are at the end of another school
year. Panathlon has held a record number of events, over 50 this year and has
invested around £300,000 in coaching funds, new sports equipment and
multi-sport competitions since last September. This has benefitted over 2,500
severely disabled young people around the country. Once we have confirmed budgets with
our sponsors and funders, we will publish our programme for next
academic year. Watch this space! We need to raise a minimum of £300,000 again to repeat this
years success. Please help us reach that total by donating to the Panathlon
charity by clicking here, or by
contacting us with any of your fundraising ideas, by emailing Ashley@panathlon.com
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Outstanding
Achievement Award
For the second year, we have been proud to work with the
Jack Petchey Foundation in establishing an Outstanding Achievement Award in
London and Essex. Thank you to all those schools who have nominated individuals
for this award. A short listing of winners has taken place and a special
and exciting award ceremony will take place in September for all those short listed
nominees. Watch this space !
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Coaching Courses
 Panathlon will be working with several National Governing Bodies of Sport next year in delivering coach education and young official leaders courses. This will include the F.A. for " Coaching Disabled Footballers" on October 15th and a new F.A. course, " Coaching Visually Impaired Footballers" on November 5th. We will be running another Powerchair Football course with the WFA in early 2011. We will also working with Boccia England and Essex County Cricket Club, amonst others, to develop coaching opportunities in 2011. More information from ashley@panathlon.com  |
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THANK YOU!
To all the people that make it all possible and to our funders who include:-
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