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Newsletter November 2013
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A record breaking 2013, with over 3,500 disabled young people competing across 50 competitions, we now look forward to a bigger and better 2014.
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Panathlon returns to the Olympic Park!
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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. |
 Panathlon have secured the 'Copper Box Arena' in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, as its venue for the London Final for the next three years. This multi-use venue used for Handball at the Olympics and Goalball during the Paralympics, has officially re-opened for public use. Panathlon is delighted to be working in partnership with GLL, the operators of this iconic venue and many others, to host many of our competitions throughout 2014.
For Panathlon, it is a welcome return to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. In April 2012, twenty Panathletes were the first disabled racers on the Olympic track in an official test event, prior to the Olympic and Paralympic Games (see our video of the race here). Nearly two thousand competitors will be trying to qualify over the next six months to represent their Borough at the London Final on June 18th 2014. The full story can be read here.
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Outstanding Achievement Awards
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The 2013 Outstanding Achievement Awards took place on October 2nd at the Olympic Suite, John Lewis Stratford City. Twelve incredible individuals were recognised for their achievements in 2013 and received awards from Liz Johnson, multiple Paralympic medal winner and Panathlon Ambassador. Three main awards Outstanding Young Leader, Outstanding Sporting Achievement and overall Outstanding Achiever were announced and the full results can be seen here. Hannah Olataju won the main prize and you can read her story here. All the award winners are pictured here receiving their awards from Liz Johnson and Trudy Kilcullen, the CEO of the Jack Petchey Foundation. |
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Wembley Supports Panathlon in 2014
 | | Panathlon receive their grant from WNST trustees including, Dame Tanni Grey-Thomspon. |
Panathlon is delighted to receive one of the 11 grants Wembley National Stadium Trust have made to increase the numbers of disabled Londoners taking part in sport. WNST have made grants totalling £798,000 and Panathlon is delighted that it has secured £20,000 of that total, towards its Primary Panathlon programme. At a recent celebration event at Wembley Stadium, Panathlon was presented with its award by trustee's of WNST; including Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Lord Toby Harris.
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Competitions 2014
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One of the 3,500 Panathletes who'll be competing in 2014.
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We are planning over 70 competitions during 2014 in various locations around the country including, London, Essex, Kent, Northants, Bucks, Berks, Suffolk, Cambridge, Merseyside, Tees Valley, Surrey, Wiltshire and new for 2014, Greater Manchester and Birmingham.
See all the dates confirmed so far by clicking fixture list. We will be adding further dates regularly, so please keep checking. The first competition of this academic year took place in East London with 15 primary schools and 139 children taking part in a Primary Panathlon competition on the 22nd October. Read about it here
We've also started training lots of schools in London with our Primary Panathlon programme, funded by the Wembley NST grant as above. One such day was in Bromley where one child, who never normally joins in PE, loved our sports and activities - read about it here. |
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Training Courses 2013/14
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Some of the 500 Panathlon Young Leaders in 2013.
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In 2013 we trained over 500 young leaders as Panathlon Officials, taking them through a detailed training course, and then putting them through their paces at one of the 50 competitions we delivered. This highlighted the ability of hundreds of young people, who given the opportunity, demonstrated incredible knowledge and leadership skills. Over 3,500 active hours of experience were gained and we will be enhancing this programme in 2014. See the list of Young Panathlon Official Courses here. More being added regularly. Furthermore we are delivering various sporting qualification courses throughout the year such as Boccia Young Officials and ASA Aquatic Leaders courses, to enable many more young people to gain sporting qualifications.
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Panathlon Boccia in action.
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Boccia Competitions
Panathlon is working in association with Boccia England to deliver the Under 19 school competition for children with a Physical Disability. This competition is organised at a county, regional and national level. Last year our own St Giles School from Croydon progressed through the rounds to the Lord Taverners National Final in Sheffield.
Panathlon is delivering the Essex County competition on the 12th November at Columbus School in Chelmsford with 12 school entries. Panathlon will then deliver three competitions in South (Nov 21st), West (Dec 3rd) and Central London and then the London Regional Final. Please email chris@panathlon.com for more information. Other Lord Taverners U19 School competitions are planned for Tees Valley and North Suffolk later in the year.  As part of Panathlon's work with specific Impairment groups, we are delivering Visually Impaired Boccia as part of the National Pathway. On December 13th, Panathlon is hosting a pre-regional VI competition in Harrow, in preparation for the Regional VI Final to be held in April, with the winners going through to the National Boccia England VI Finals later in 2014.
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